Re: What time zone is the new space station in?

Hi Jayne,

This problem was solved long before the advent of space travel. Railroads, shipping lines, and airlines all need a standard timezone to keep their schedules understandable. The time used by nearly all astronomers (and NASA, and just about everyone else involved in space) is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which was originally based on the time at the Greenwich Observatory in England. Nearly all astronomical observatories and space facilities keep their schedules in GMT, and events are logged in GMT (also called Universal Time, or UT). You can read more about GMT at http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/mill/ meridian.htm and you can read more about the space station at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/.

If you want to talk about this some more, you can reach me via the Mad Scientist Network or directly by email at StevenLevin@we.mediaone.net .