Trump wants to end Daylight Savings Time

[Voluntarist]

What time is it on the International Space Station?

Hey, hey, hey!! Let's not be bringing relativity's impact upon time into this. And sure as hell don't allow Elon Musk into this discussion, because he'll want to coordinate Lunar and Martian time as well. With all of those you have to factor in the impacts of:
- Special Relativity (time moves slower for objects moving at orbital velocities when compared to the stationary time on Earth).
- General Relativity (time moves faster under weaker gravitational fields when compared to the time under stronger gravitational fields).


Well yeah, OK, it amounts to less than a second over the course of a lifetime, but the GPS network has to take it into account to give you an accurate location.

But seriously, the ISS, as well as GPS and the worldwide US military, operate on Zulu time - the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

 

[Dr.3D]

Hey, hey, hey!! Let's not be bringing relativity's impact upon time into this. And sure as hell don't allow Elon Musk into this discussion, because he'll want to coordinate Lunar and Martian time as well. With all of those you have to factor in the impacts of:
- Special Relativity (time moves slower for objects moving at orbital velocities when compared to the stationary time on Earth).
- General Relativity (time moves faster under weaker gravitational fields when compared to the time under stronger gravitational fields).


Well yeah, OK, it amounts to less than a second over the course of a lifetime, but the GPS network has to take it into account to give you an accurate location.

But seriously, the ISS, as well as GPS and the worldwide US military, operate on Zulu time - the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Please see post #16 in this thread.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...Savings-Time&p=7270036&viewfull=1#post7270036

 

[Swordsmyth]

Right? Of the things that government may or may not do, this is very close to the bottom of my concerns.



Just know that there will be significant costs with any changes. In today's world, every system that logs data has to account for the time changes since you have one day that has 25 hours and one that has 23 and those affect the dates on which those hours will fall. Every time-based system will need to be re-programmed and tested. It's a one-time thing and can be done (it would have been simpler if DST was never put in place in the first place), but there will be costs and there will be failures that slip through.

The costs of keeping it as is are greater.