As a software developer, the last thing I want to see is another obscure timezone to deal with. It does seem like it’d be important to set a standard here though, and it’s unlikely to affect most software engineers anyway unless we start seeing colonization at some point.
Also, in general, I can’t imagine how relativity will work with this kind of timezone conversion.
Oh god.
My service went down at timestamp x
This message looks like a potential root cause and has a lunar origin
the lunar box reports sending a message to me at timestamp y
the relay station reports relaying said message from the lunar box at timestamp z
Can you confirm the lunar message was sent at the right time to have been the cause?
Do the logs on the lunar box come timestamped with a “helpful” string representation? If they’re in unix epoc, is that time dilation adjusted?
How do satellites do it, I wonder?
At least we won’t have any dang countries forcing time zones there to be in odd shapes.
Just wait until every country’s base uses its own capital’s time. The time zones won’t even be in vague order around the moon like they generally are on earth but distributed randomly based on whatever country has the biggest base in the area.
Worse, if different countries bases and teams are using different home time zones than you don’t even have time zones. Two people from different countries in the same room could be different time zones, purely based on the country they work for.
If this fails and everyone with a space program can’t agree to just use the same standard, then time zones could get very, very bad in the future.
