Universal Lunar Time (beta)
Get the time of the Moon in real time. A Civil proposal for the Official Time of the Moon.
Terrestrial Time (UTC):
Lunar API Access
Bold features
Simplest
Every person, included a child, could understand this format. Really similar to the Earth timeset.
Naturals points of view
Just as we have the Sun and the Moon estimating our time, people on the Moon can estimate their time with the Earth and the Sun.
Accessible and affordable
You can access Universal Lunar Time with just an API. From the Earth or from the Moon.
Friendly to human biorhythm
An inhabitant of the Moon will have a 24-hour day, the equivalent of which on Earth is 24 hours and 50 Earth minutes.
Public Access
Free access limited by time (1 call per minute). Or with special plans for exhaustive API consumption.
Synchronized with lunar cycles
The system recalculates call latency from any point between the Earth and the Moon and delivers accurate data to the consumer.
How is Calculated?
This study proposes a schedule where days last 24 hours and each hour has 60 minutes, but the seconds are adjusted so that 24 lunar hours are equivalent to 24 hours and 50 Earth minutes. This approach allows the observer on the Moon, when observing the Earth, to easily intuit what lunar time it is, just by looking at the Earth's zenith. This adjustment implies that a lunar day (24 lunar hours) corresponds to 24 hours and 50 Earth minutes (24.8333 Earth hours), which is the time in which the Moon makes a complete orbit of the Earth, and for this we must adjust the duration of the lunar seconds.
Therefore, each lunar second (sl) will last approximately 1.0347 Earth seconds (st).
For the implementation of lunar time.
Each lunar hour consists of:
Each lunar day consists of:
Where:
ht: earth hours
hl: lunar hours
st: earth seconds
sl: lunar seconds
h: hours
m: minutes
s: seconds
As a final approach, the structure of an exclusive lunar calendar is included, corresponding to this lunar schedule, which establishes months of 30 lunar days and a year consisting of 12 lunar months. To begin this lunar calendar, day 0 is established on the date of July 20, 1969 c.e., the date on which the lunar module The Eagle of the Apollo 11 mission made contact on the lunar surface, giving rise to our human history. on the moon.