Paris Full Moon Picnic Group

Ahoy there,
Next full moon picnic will be Monday**, May 12 from 8:45 - 11 PM**. Moonrise will be around 10 PM. I will likely arrive a bit late, maybe around 9:30 PM, but Catherine will be your friendly hostess with the mostest starting at 8:45 PM

May is known by American Indians for the Full Flower Moon because of the wide appearance of flowers during this month. It's also known as Full Corn Planting Moon (for obvious reasons) and as the Milk Moon (for reasons unknown to me, but ones you're invited to research or invent).

WHAT: Everyone brings food and drink to share.

WHERE: Pont des Arts. We'll gather around the 3rd bench from the Left Bank side of the bridge. Nearest metros: Pont Neuf and Louvre-Rivoli.
WHEN: Monday**,** May 12 from 8:45 - 11 P.M.
WHY: Share one of the most memorable sights in Paris with some of the nicest people around.
WHO: You and your friends.
THEME: Do you have the time?
BIRTHDAYS: Are you a Taurus? If so, bring a cake and let me know so we can celebrate your birthday this month and blow out the world’s largest birthday candle.
HOW to find us: Keep your eyes out for a bunch of lunatics eating, drinking an chatting in English and French. Look for a small white telescope, weather permitting.

PUZZLER I: The Full Moon Picnic is a bit later in the evening this month. That’s because the moon is a lazy late riser this time of year. Which leads me to question: What time is it actually on the moon? Is it the same time as on Earth? And which time zone on Earth? Should the moon have its own time zone? And does it?

PUZZLER ANSWER I: No the moon doesn’t have its own time zone... yet. But it will soon have one because yes the moon needs to have its own time zone. In the future it will be necessary to synchronize Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Space exploration in the past simply used Earth time in conjunction with “mission elapsed time.” However that won’t be good enough for a future that envisions longer term bases on the moon because spatial navigation will require more precision. The problem as Einstein predicted with the theory of general relativity which links gravity, mass and time is that time on the moon passes faster than on Earth - 58.7 microseconds per Earth day, which is enough to cause errors wth distant communication and navigation. The US congress will pass a bill requiring NASA to develop a standard for celestial time that is scalable from the moon to Mars and beyond.
For more:
https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/what-time-is-it-on-the-moon-us-house-space-committee-wants-a-standard-lunar-clock

PUZZLER II: Why on earth is Coordinated Universal Time abbreviated UTC and not as CUT??? And why does UTC use the word “universal” which it can’t even handle time on a body as close as the moon?

PUZZLER II ANSWER: No one is better suited to answer than YOU are! It turns out that UTC was a lose-lose compromise between the egos of men (it had to be men!) of two great languages, French and English. The French wanted Temps Universel Coordonné (TUC). No surprise that the French and the English see everything backwards. CUT / TUC, NATO / OTAN, MRI / IRM, DNA / ADN. Of course the French have been miffed ever since England’s Greenwich Mean Time became the prime meridian instead of Arago’s Méridienne verte that runs through Paris.