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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: What's the date on the moon?
- Message-ID: <BruMzL.KBz@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:57:19 GMT
- References: <980@vk2bea.UUCP>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <980@vk2bea.UUCP> michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann) writes:
- >So what is the date on the moon? One might guess that it is the
- >same as the point on the earth that it is directly above, or one
- >might conceivably use GMT (UTC) as moon time but I doubt one uses
- >US EDT...
-
- Actually, the answer is "ask the people who were there"... and they were
- on Houston time, as I recall. That would have been CDT, which is handily
- the same as EST.
-
- >... Therefore please adjust your history books to read the
- >first step on the moon took place JULY 21 1969.
-
- The NASA History series books, which are the closest thing to an
- authoritative history so far, give the times in EST.
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- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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