They have just restarted the clock. 8:20 to go.
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Lift off. So far so good.
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I’d expect he would have been well enough prepared to bullshit you. The real risk was running into someone who did something similar, which is a real risk in and around DC. They would want to talk agency politics…
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Goooo Artemis 
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They seem to be slow-playing it. So far it’s just technical execution of a complicated, crewed rocket launch.
I’m crossing my fingers for an elaborate War of the Worlds-esque encounter with muppets on the moon – though, by then, it will no longer be April 1… unless I’m vastly misunderstanding lunar timezones.
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Huh. What would a sidereal calendar… like, a proper lunar calendar-from-the-perspective-of-the-moon… look like?
I mean, every “day” on the moon lasts approximately… 14 planetary days? Sunrise to sunset is 300-ish hours (I’m spitballing here). A “month” could be a circumnavigation of the Earth, but one day = one month feels weird? If you were to say 30 Lunar Days = One Lunar Month, that’s somewhat arbitrary (our months are 28 days because of the moon, so it’s a little backwards to then say a Lunar month should be 28 lunar days) but it would be two-ish Earth-years?
Also, what’s a “time zone” while the Earth spins underneath you? You pick an arbitrary point (Houston, let’s say), sure, but on the ship you can theoretically set any timezone you want (and probably should?).
Whenever humanity colonizes Venus (assuming we don’t nuke ourselves first, natch), calendar-mathematics are going to be a very important, and very confusing field of study.
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Time zones were created for the benefit of railroads, but there aren’t any trains in space. 
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Curiously, I have never had a change in job title because of a company name change or acquisition. The job titles just aren’t very important: what matters is what you do, and the business is intricate enough that none of the re-organisation have tried to give lots of staff different roles all at once. It’s more like a bunch of small companies in a sack than a big company.
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The actual answer, as you’ve posited, is that you use the time zone of mission control.
All the Apoilo missions landed in lunar daylight.
Traditional ocean liners would gradually adjust clocks to shift to destination time (e.g. an hour a day) over the course of the voyage,
Mars is the interesting one, since a crewed expedition is likely going to be spending significant time outside, and daylight won’t line up with a 24-hour clock.
I would generally expect that if activity is mostly inside, inhabitants of other planets will stick to a 24-hour clock of a convenient time zone, and treat outside illumination like weather, something to plan round rather than something to live by.
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A (not terribly good) scenario I ran for some of the Wharties has a company described as “Professional Business Solutions” for similar reasons.
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It is technically true that I work as a subcontractor for the SAS doing jobs they don’t want to dirty their hands with.
I mean, it’s the School of Advanced Study of the university, but…
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I was rather disappointed when they changed the name of my department at work, as I used to work for Department S.
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GitHub achieves record-breaking zero-nines reliability!
Let’s see Codeberg manage that!
via, the actual tracker
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I saw this and immediately thought of @RogerBW and his inability not to comment on the absurdity of the Blades in the Dark setting.
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My gym had its walls repainted yesterday and they put signs up that say, “please do not lean equipment against the walls.”
When I arrived this afternoon there were a pair of squat rack safety arms leaning against the wall right under one of the signs.
I regret not taking a photo, it was perfect obliviousness from someone.
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Was there somewhere else to put them? The ones for my rack are a pain to pick up if they’re flat on the ground, so I lean them against the wall or tablesaw when I take them off.
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