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Our clocks are too slow.

Our clocks are too slow.

Atomic clocks on the Moon tick slightly faster than on Earth: Every 24 Earth hours, they gain about 56 microseconds. This discrepancy poses a potential problem for satellite research, where accuracy is crucial for space missions—including surface navigation or network communications. After the US government tasked NASA last April with developing a common time standard for celestial bodies beyond Earth, there now appears to be movement toward a solution.

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) now has aLunar time chart“, which is supposed to solve the problem. This is supposed to be a single time zone synchronized with the Moon, which accommodates the Moon's lower gravitational pull (1.62 m/s² compared to 9.81 m/s² on Earth) and this difference is also responsible for the discrepancy in time measurement up until now.

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