As a software developer, the last thing I want to see is another obscure timezone to deal with. It does seem like it’d be important to set a standard here though, and it’s unlikely to affect most software engineers anyway unless we start seeing colonization at some point.
Also, in general, I can’t imagine how relativity will work with this kind of timezone conversion.
Relativity is exactly the problem, time runs at a different speed on the moon. I have no idea how this is supposed to be handled in software.
Like if you have a lunar instant of time and an earth time and you want to figure out how much time happened between those two instants, I guess you’ll essentially need to decide on a frame of reference and then take into account relativity as you convert the lunar time to UTC. But I’m not a physicist, I’m not sure if doing that even makes sense.
As a software developer, the last thing I want to see is another obscure timezone to deal with. It does seem like it’d be important to set a standard here though, and it’s unlikely to affect most software engineers anyway unless we start seeing colonization at some point.
Also, in general, I can’t imagine how relativity will work with this kind of timezone conversion.
Relativity is exactly the problem, time runs at a different speed on the moon. I have no idea how this is supposed to be handled in software.
Like if you have a lunar instant of time and an earth time and you want to figure out how much time happened between those two instants, I guess you’ll essentially need to decide on a frame of reference and then take into account relativity as you convert the lunar time to UTC. But I’m not a physicist, I’m not sure if doing that even makes sense.