White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon

Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by autoexec on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @07:21AM (#39915991)

If they're going to bother creating a time measurement system for the moon they might as well just invent the Stardate already and use that for everything we do in space from now on regardless of where we are.

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by thecosmicfrog on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:38PM (#39925620)

Time to add a `--stardate` flag to the `date` command then?

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by evanb on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:37AM (#39926913)

Maybe just --star

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:23AM (#39928535)

> might as well just invent the Stardate already and use that for everything we do in space from now on regardless of where we are

Until we have FTL, that isn't physically possible. If we do, GMT comes with backwards compatibility.

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by rkeene2 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:32PM (#39935467)

Tcl is once again ahead of the curve with a stardate format option (%Q)

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