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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

Yep, relativity accounts for a difference of like 50ms drift per earth day. I would assume that it's forward drifting if you're on earth but backwards if you're on the moon.

Take that, timezone whiners!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    It's been a long time since I took modern physics, so I'm not positive, but I think you're right that the moon would have time moving slower, and if your 50ms/day is right (edit: I based this on the moon traveling faster than the earth, but I don't know anything about gravitational relativity, so that's probably wrong) then you'd need to do something like skip a second every 20th day on the moon to keep pace with Earth. We could call it an "anti-leap-second"

    Programmers, that seems pretty simple; what's the big deal? ^/s^

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