If we were to colonize the moon, what would the clock/timezone be like on the moon?

Answer 1

Since the moon only rotates on its axis once every 27 days or so, the concept of "local" time on the moon would be of little use. Humans need a sleep/wake cycle that is about 24 hours long (adaptations can be made to longer and shorter by about 25% in either direction). So, rather than try to define a local time, the lunar colony would probably operate on UTC, which is a common time frame used by scientists around the world.

Answer 2

Estimations propose colonizing Mars is in the tens of TRILLIONS of greenbacks. The moon is obviously much less of a holiday. even however, there has been quite a few prototypes of a form of 'domicile' in a bubble. This domicile could be self sufficient. in spite of the actuality that they did this, yet might desire to no longer come across a thank you to recycle the carbon dioxide, which might ultimately turn poisonous and kill the inhabitants. The fulfillment of this venture might desire to in all likelihood bring about colonizing planets. And the will for water is likewise a controversy, in spite of the actuality that this might been solved, because of the fact the Moon has a meant ice middle, and shall we mine that and use it for ingesting water. doubtlessly it would desire to be used to terraform the moon with flora. maximum theorists shows colonizing the moon, and then shifting issues from the moon to mars, regardless of the actuality the progression could nevertheless be a protracted time. i'm unsure whether it rather is 5 months to mars or the moon. even yet it somewhat is not any longer nicely worth it, there is not any short time era earnings, and maximum business business enterprise's or u . s . a . could pass bankrupt.

Answer 3

Since the Moon has a "day" one month long, I suspect any base on the Moon would just use Earth time and ignore the day/night cycle as best they could. Pick a time zone. UT, or GMT might be best but NASA might choose to use Houston time for any base they establish, for the convenience of ground controllers.

Answer 4

It might be UTC, but it would more likely be Houston time. That is, USA Central Time Zone. That way, the sleep/wake cycle on the moon would be the same as the Earth headquarters.

Answer 5

UTC - Coordinated Universal Time. It's also the time system used for many Internet and World Wide Web standards

http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java

Answer 6

Well, they'd have a control center on Earth somewhere; I'd bet the Russians would have their colony set to Moscow time, the Chinese set to Beijing time, and ours would be set to Houston. Or Pasadena.

Answer 7

Aka GMT or Zulu time.

Answer 8

I bet they would use GMT or somthing similar.