jarfil@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 3 months agoWhite House directs NASA to create time standard for the moonwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarearchonet@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months ago“[…] instructed the space agency to work with other parts of the U.S. government to devise a plan by the end of 2026 for setting what it called a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).” You people just hate acronyms that make sense, don’t you
minus-squarePolitical Custard@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI am campaigning for LTU then… Uncoordinated Lunar Time, then people on the moon can do what they want whenever they damn well feel like it.
minus-squarejak@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIt’s because the French and the English can’t allow the other to win, so we use a third option
minus-squarearchonet@lemy.lollinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoyet another item on the list of things I blame the French for
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI’m guessing it’s to stay standardised with the UTC terminology.
minus-squareQuexotic@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThey didn’t want it to be pronounced clit? Shoulda called it lunar coordinated time.
“[…] instructed the space agency to work with other parts of the U.S. government to devise a plan by the end of 2026 for setting what it called a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).”
You people just hate acronyms that make sense, don’t you
I am campaigning for LTU then… Uncoordinated Lunar Time, then people on the moon can do what they want whenever they damn well feel like it.
It’s because the French and the English can’t allow the other to win, so we use a third option
yet another item on the list of things I blame the French for
I’m guessing it’s to stay standardised with the UTC terminology.
They didn’t want it to be pronounced clit? Shoulda called it lunar coordinated time.