The Picard ManeuverIt's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this
Korne127Shouldn’t the moon have… 24 time zones as well, depending where on the moon you currently are?
NielsBohronNo, the moon’s rotation isn’t on a 24-hour cycle. I’m not a astronomer, but I pretty sure since it’s tidally locked to earth and on a 28-day cycle around the earth, a lunar day is actually 28 Earth days, but I’m not actually sure how that would factor into the number of time zones (but I’m pretty sure it would be more complicated than just 24 time zones to match 24 time zones on earth).
Plus, I think the speed of the moon relative to the sun is different enough from Earth that you need to take relativity into effect, which is the real headache here.
dan24 time zones on earth, though
Even if you just count UTC offsets, there’s 38 time zones: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
There’s more than that though, due to Daylight Saving Time. The rules for DST are part of the definition of the time zone. For example, in Australia, Queensland and Victoria are both UTC+10. However, Victoria observes DST while Queensland doesn’t, so technically they’re two separate timezones (in the Olsen database, they’re Australia/Melbourne and Australia/Brisbane respectively).
