Here's how it would work A new lunar time zone is all about ensuring the success of future, multinational missions to the moon. Space. NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the moon.

Earth rises over the moon's horizon, as seen from the Apollo 11 spacecraft in 1969. NASA. This week, the White House officially tasked NASA with establishing a time standard for the moon, called ...

It’s not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. As Einstein famously noted, time is very much relative .