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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)
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[–] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nah dog, its gonna be UTC. End of story.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago

if anything it should be stardate as the united federation of planets agreed to

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is the way.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The moon gains a few seconds every year relative to the Earth due to relativity. Otherwise, yeah, there would be no reason for a new zone.

[–] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its UTC or you gonna have to find a new programmer !

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Indeed, God help whoever NASA puts in charge of date and time conversion.

If we do a lot of space travel we'll have to get used to this, though. And even worse, there's no consistent way of defining a frame of reference not subject to gravity, so there's a chance any standard one will fall into a black hole, which is funny because it's a tangible thing destroying a concept.