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Earth's moon is getting its own time zone

Oct 03, 2024
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NASA has announced plans to standardize the temporal readings for our lunar cousin by developing an official Coordinated Lunar Time measurement, or CLT. That's right: it's a time zone for the moon.

"The existence of a common time reference is the basis of our everyday life activities on Earth, and the same will be true on the Moon…

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