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00:00What time is it right now?

00:05Depending on where you are on Earth, that will change.

00:07But did you know that Earth has a planetary universal time?

00:10It's useful if you are a human, but you might not be on Earth, rather floating above

00:13it.

00:14But what about when you get even further away, or maybe someday live further away?

00:18As humankind edges ever closer to revisiting, and likely setting up a base on the moon,

00:22experts are now calling for a time zone for the lunar surface.

00:25The ESA has been advocating for a standardized lunar time zone for a while, and recently

00:29the first steps have been taken.

00:31But why is it important?

00:32Well, soon, unmanned landers by NASA, ESA, and Japan and Canada's space programs will

00:37all have landers on the moon simultaneously.

00:40Many of them have joint missions, however their space agencies are spread out in multiple

00:43time zones around the world.

00:45Not to mention it takes time for messages to travel 240,000 miles from the lunar surface

00:50back to us on Earth.

00:51But there's a catch.

00:52Normal clocks run differently on the moon, meaning we need a way to keep proper time

00:56along the ground on the lunar surface, with the head of strategic planning at ESA saying

01:00about it quote,

01:01This will be quite a challenge on a planetary surface where in the equatorial region, each

01:05day is 29.5 days long, including freezing fortnight-long lunar nights, with the whole

01:10of Earth just a small blue circle in the dark sky.

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