NASA’s proposed LTC time zone is “a system that, while independent, maintains traceability to Earth’s Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to facilitate seamless time conversion,” says Julian ...

Missions to the Moon currently communicate with team members on Earth using coordinated universal time (UTC) as a common temporal language. UTC’s timing is tied to an ensemble of atomic clocks.

Because astronomers have divided the globe into 24 time zones, using one clock time worldwide is impractical. That’s why the times of astronomical events are often given in Universal Time (UT ...

Similar to Earth's Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the lunar time will be calculated using a weighted average of atomic clocks placed on the Moon. However, establishing LTC isn't without its ...

While the space station doesn't have its own time zone, it runs on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is meticulously based on atomic clocks.

Along with Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific times, we could have Coordinated Lunar Time. The moon's gravity means a super-precise atomic clock would run ever so slightly faster than on Earth.

Corporations such as Google and Meta, which maintain systems based on extremely precise timekeeping, have asked for the suspension. ByJohn Wheeler November 21, 2022 09:18 PM ...