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Yep, relativity accounts for a difference of like 50ms drift per earth day. I would assume that it's forward drifting if you're on earth but backwards if you're on the moon.
Take that, timezone whiners!
It's been a long time since I took modern physics, so I'm not positive, but I think you're right that the moon would have time moving slower, and if your 50ms/day is right (edit: I based this on the moon traveling faster than the earth, but I don't know anything about gravitational relativity, so that's probably wrong) then you'd need to do something like skip a second every 20th day on the moon to keep pace with Earth. We could call it an "anti-leap-second"
Programmers, that seems pretty simple; what's the big deal? ^/s^
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We're close to skipping a second too here on earth since the Earth had actually sped up a bit the past decade.
i heard, can't wait for satellites to fall out of the sky because of this one second