The US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directed the US space agency to set up a moon-centric time reference system that accounts for its differing gravitational forces.

In a memo on Tuesday, OSTP chief Arati Prabhakar noted that Earth-based clocks would appear to lose 58.7 microseconds per Earth-day as a result of these factors.

Nasa has until 2026 to set up a unified time standard, which Ms Prabhakar referred to as Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC). It will then be used by astronauts, spacecraft and satellites that require highly accurate timekeeping.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

What about just a measurement base time? we could have that for given points in space time (ST) that accounts for other bodies as well?

So earth is at a given apogee with other significant bodies (SBs) is one time zone

We just increase the measurement of SBs until all the given points of a related points of ST (PSTs) when controlled for the gravity of SBs have the same time within a give precession range.

Seems more scalable and better at accounting for the movement of SBs