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So what would the prefix for the IANA code be? Right now, it's continent (Asia/Kolkata, America/Chicago etc). Would it just be "Space/Moon"?

One can imagine the standard would have to be revised many many times if humans became interplanetary.



> So what would the prefix for the IANA code be?

I would prefer if IANA/Eggert were not involved on this one. They've already made an absolute mess of the Earth based timezone database.

> Would it just be "Space/Moon"?

More problematically, how would you define it's coordinates and country code, which are fields in the tzdb for each timezone?


Earth/Satellites/Moon/Nearside and Earth/Satellites/Moon/Farside preferrably


If we will standardize time on solar system level, we’ll probably have another component of time, rather than a flat list of time zones. E.g. Mars should have its own set of zones. Maybe that means having an identifier of coordinate system, which can be omitted in local use cases.


Solar_System/The_Moon


I'd suggest Sol/Luna or Sol/Terra/Luna, that way it's easier to do Sol/Jupiter/Europa




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