Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 18:31 |
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Joe wrote:
> Eh, never mind, I was tired when I wrote that. That is a point, though.
> When we have space colonies, what time will they use? I suppose colonies on
> planets won't have a problem(they can probably use local time of some kind),
> but what about Space Stations?
Probably UTC. Or possibly based on the capital of their world (e.g.,
American colonies using EST, Russian colonies using Moscow time, etc).
Colonies on planets with inconvenient rotational periods would probably
use UTC too. A planet like Mars, which has a *very* convenient
rotational period (24 and a fraction hours) would likely use local time,
but keep UTC for official purposes.
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