White House wants Moon to have its own time zone
The US government has asked Nasa to develop a way to keep track of time on the Moon.
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The US government has asked Nasa to develop a way to keep track of time on the Moon.
Biden asks for "unified lunar time standard" amid privatized space race
In a strange twist, global warming could help timekeepers by delaying the need for history's first "negative leap second"—a minute with only 59 seconds—by three years, a study suggested.
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks because the planet is rotating faster than it used to
Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.