[tz] Time for a Lunar time zone? -Brooks

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2024-07-11T12:07:17+0200 Paul Eggert via tz hath writ:
> It's still not clear to me what the relationship between the ESA and NASA is
> on this. Will there be a single standard for lunar timekeeping, or multiple
> standards? Will this be like the squabbles over the Prime Median in the 19th
> century?

The IAU already has a defined coordinate system for the moon.

This new international arrangement will be akin to what happened in
1968 as the old agreement on using Greenwich and the poles gave way to
the new reality of satellite geodesy and atomic clocks resulting in a
terrestrial reference frame where Greenwich is not zero and the poles
are not where the rotation axis intersects the surface of the earth.

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