• Randelung@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    We’ve gone too far. Everyone just switch to UTC please. Yes, it means some will go to bed at 2pm and get up at 10pm, so what.

    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      go to bed at 2pm and get up at 10pm

      While we are making reasonable demands, stop using 12 hour time. Sincerely, everyone else.

  • RonSijm@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Sure, we can compromise; they can have their own timezone, but it has a constant time value.

    const moonTime = DateTime.Utc.MoonTime

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    The proposed time zone is to drift about 1 second every 50 years. I also suspect it wouldn’t really be a time zone in the same sense as the time zones we know - it would just be a standardised calibration reference. Dates and times expressed in “moon time” would probably just be some leap second off of a known Earth time zone, and because it’s mere seconds over centuries, I think the only use of this time zone is to calculate ultra-precise time diffs between two earth datetimes when the observer is on the moon. At least, that’s how I interpret the articles I can find about it.