Time zone

A time zone is a region whose civil clocks share one offset from Coordinated Universal Time. Zones are an Earth convention built around local sunrise and sunset; every lunar proposal published so far puts the whole Moon on a single scale instead.

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All thirty entries are in the glossary of lunar timekeeping.

Sources

  1. Policy on Celestial Time Standardization — White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, . Official document. Verified .
  2. Telling time on the Moon — European Space Agency, . Official document. Verified .

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