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Re: What Time Is It on the Moon?

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J. J. Lodder wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> What time is sunrise on the sun?
> 
> Jan


The sun clock sits on the earth not on the sun. They are called
sun-clock sundial.



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What Time Is It on the Moon? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2024-08-08 09:16 -0700
  Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-08-08 21:18 +0200
    Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2024-08-08 15:18 -0500
      Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-08-08 23:07 +0200
        Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Peter-John Rodrigues <gqder@eo.pt> - 2024-08-08 22:46 +0000
          Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-09 10:33 +0200
            Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Brody Dobrenkov <evd@borddbo.ru> - 2024-08-09 19:31 +0000
            Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Olen Richelieu <ln@ncelchee.fr> - 2024-08-09 21:04 +0000
        Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-08-09 08:26 +0200
      Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2024-08-10 10:08 +0200
        Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2024-08-10 10:27 -0700
          Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-08-10 22:02 +0200
            Re: What Time Is It on the Moon? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2024-08-10 22:26 -0700
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