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Time on the Moon?
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Started conversation Dec 7, 2000
As far as I know, there are no clocks on the moon, so how would you know the time?
The Moon doesn't have days like the Earth does, as it doesn't rotate...it keeps the same face towards the Earth all the time.
No point in having a 24-hour clock then!
I guess the time up there would drag as well, it'd be pretty boring with nothing to do...that place just has ~no~ atmosphere!
Hehehe
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Time on the Moon?
Eusebio - squad number 11 Posted Dec 7, 2000
Hi Galaxy Babe,
thanks for your answer ... this was one of thoe questions which came up following too much 
and 
... 
!!
I have e-mailed NASA 
to ask if they had an answer, but have not received a reply yet!
Do you think that if Neil Armstrong was wearing a watch set to the same time as Cape Kennedy that the moon will have the same time zone??
anyway, I think it's a question to which we need an answer! 
BTW, you probably noticed that I followed your link to the smileys page
Time on the Moon?
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 7, 2000
Hehehe
That's the most FAQ I get!
So I give out the link now, when I greet!
Let me know if you get an email reply from NASA!
I never thought about Neil or Buzz wearing a watch!
*ROFL*
"Er, Can we have a time check there, Houston?"
~9 minutes later~
"It's 10.02, Buzz"
"Was that 10.02 nine minutes ago, or now?"
Hehehehe
Time on the Moon?
Global Village Idiot Posted Dec 8, 2000
I've got a feeling - just a feeling - that outer space in general, by convention, uses GMT: so it's noon on the Moon too, except in summer when it's 11am.
Of course that doesn't tell you whether the sun's up - but at least you know it's not raining 
Time on the Moon?
Jimi X Posted Dec 8, 2000
Gary is right. Convention dictates that space travel uses 'Universal Time' = GMT. Also, all astronomical charts give dates for stellar events in UT as well. Like planet conjunctions and stuff.
A day on the moon lasts 14 earth days long (roughly).
But who was it that said that all time is relative anyway...
Time on the Moon?
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 9, 2000
It was Einstein,
Well, the things I have learned today!
I ~love~ this place!
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