[sldev] Looking at I18N formatting standards

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On 20 Feb 2009, at 23:36, Tammy Nowotny wrote:

> I am not sure if there is a standard yet for time on other planets.   
> The only significant off-planet activities were the moon missions of  
> the early 1970s, and those only lasted a few days each.  The  
> astronauts just used earth time.  I don't know offhand if they used  
> Houston Time or Zulu Time (same as UTC and GMT) or what. The moon  
> was so close and the speeds used to get there were so slow that  
> relativity was insignificant.
>
> Even when we just go to Mars, we have problems.  The second is a  
> well-defined time unit our explorers would use that.  But Mars is  
> far enough from the earth that you can't just use Earth time.  And  
> of course its day and year are very different lengths from ours.
>
> --Tammy Nowotny

Relativistic time adjustments should clearly also be a part of this.