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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by dahfizz on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:01PM (#22470461)
I think any interplanetary civilization will be practically forced to use a planet-agnostic time system - a true UTC
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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by wahern on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:40PM (#22470708)
That'd be TCB--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time

But we'd need a different standard if we colonized planets outside our solar system.

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