Yep, relativity accounts for a difference of like 50ms drift per earth day. I would assume that it's forward drifting if you're on earth but backwards if you're on the moon.

Take that, timezone whiners!

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's been a long time since I took modern physics, so I'm not positive, but I think you're right that the moon would have time moving slower, and if your 50ms/day is right (edit: I based this on the moon traveling faster than the earth, but I don't know anything about gravitational relativity, so that's probably wrong) then you'd need to do something like skip a second every 20th day on the moon to keep pace with Earth. We could call it an "anti-leap-second"

Programmers, that seems pretty simple; what's the big deal? ^/s^

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

anti-leap-second

HORROR

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We're close to skipping a second too here on earth since the Earth had actually sped up a bit the past decade.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

i heard, can't wait for satellites to fall out of the sky because of this one second