Reply to post: Re: Hey Moon - your time is, like, totally dilated

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

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Re: Hey Moon - your time is, like, totally dilated

> we seem to manage somehow

by having lots and lots of wire stretched across the planet, connecting together all the systems that care about precise timing: global-scale radio interferometry, LIGO and the stock markets. With lumps of electronics carefully characterising the comms to allow for, ooh, measuring and accounting for continental drift, the occasional mountain changing the local gravity field.

Quite a bit of work has gone into the timing systems on Earth.

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