Earth's moon is getting its own time zone

NASA has announced plans to standardize the temporal readings for our lunar cousin by developing an official Coordinated Lunar Time measurement, or CLT. That's right: it's a time zone for the moon.

'The existence of a common time reference is the basis of our everyday life activities on Earth, and the same will be true on the Moon with the development of a lunar economy and the expansion of lunar exploration,' Javier Ventura-Traveset, Moonlight Project navigation manager at the European Space Agency (ESA), told Newsweek.

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