[tz] Unearthly time zone in the news

[Steven R. Loomis]

Issue: there isn't a UN M.49 code that covers this region.

Steven


On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 12:37 PM Paul Eggert via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> On 2024-04-02 22:16, Arthur David Olson via tz wrote:
>
> >
> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/02/moon-nasa-coordinated-lunar-time?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=edit_2221&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1712106451
>
> Thanks for the heads-up. There seems to be no acknowledgment in the
> White House press release of a similar effort launched by the European
> Space Agency last year, and the Guardian missed the boat on reporting on
> whether there are now two competing efforts to specify time on the Moon.
> I hope we are not going back to the bad old days, when France's prime
> meridian differed from Germany's.
>
> Anyway, for now I installed the attached proposed patch. If anyone knows
> about efforts to coordinate European and American timescales on the
> Moon, please let us know.
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