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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by lupire on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @08:37PM (#39925158)
Yes, that would be the solution.

Do you know how to make a microsecond on the moon? No, you do not. No one does. NASA has been assigned to figure it out.

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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by zardo on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:21PM (#39933334)
A clock that ticks in microseconds on Earth will tick in (local) microseconds on the Moon.
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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by Vox_Leone on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:02AM (#39940917)
No, no. Time is a function of the gravitational field. Two different masses, two different ticking and tacking.
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Re:White House directs NASA to create time standard for the ... by torstenvl on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:56PM (#39957475)
The consensus is that gravitational time dilation occurs has a constant effect, not that it's qualitatively different in some complicated way that requires a Presidential directive to figure out.

Do you have any evidence that they're more "different" than Earth "local microseconds" versus moon "local microseconds"?

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