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Subject: Re: What Time Is It on the Moon?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 10:27:25 -0700
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Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
> Am Donnerstag000008, 08.08.2024 um 22:18 schrieb Tom Roberts:
> > On 8/8/24 2:18 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >> The most pressing problem with [lunar timing an location):
> >> what are they going to call the lunar equivalent of the geoid?
> >> The 'loonoid', perhaps?
> >
> > A more pressing problem is: which timezone(s) will be used?
> > With a ~ 700-hour "day" it's not clear what to do....
> 
> Timezones have nothig to do with time.
> 
> Timezones are used to make the numerical value of the time of the
> sunrise at least somehow equal for all places on the Earth' surface.
> 
> As Moon is not located on Earth' surface, the man in the Moon has other
> worries than our time zones.
> 
> Because the 'day' is quite long on the moon, the 'hours' could be as well.
> 
> Or they use more 'hours' there, if they want to.
> 
> But that isn't related to the nature of time, because the sunrise istn't
> time neither.
> 
> TH


If time is what a clock says, and the sun says it's sunrise on the sun
clock, it's time is sunrise. Am I wrong?



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