The Morning After: NASA has to make a time zone for the Moon

The White House has published a policy memo asking NASA to create a new time standard for the Moon by 2026. Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) will establish an official time reference to help guide future lunar missions. The US, China, Japan, India and Russia have space missions to the Moon planned or completed. The European Space Agency is also trying to make a time zone outside of Earth's… zone. Given the Moon's weaker gravity, time moves slightly faster there. "The same clock we have on Earth would move at a different rate on the Moon," NASA space communications and navigation chief Kevin Coggins told Reuters.