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Lunar Standard Time

A clock anchored to humanity's first steps on the Moon. Convert any Gregorian date to LST — time measured since Apollo 11 touched down.

MISSION CONTROL // LST TERMINAL v1.0 ● LIVE

CURRENT LUNAR STANDARD TIME

--:--:-- ∇ --:--:--

EARTH: -- UTC

CONVERT A DATE

HOW IT WORKS

EPOCH

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Time zero: Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon — July 21, 1969 at 02:56:15 UTC. Every LST timestamp is seconds counted forward from that moment.

1969-07-21 ∇ 00:00:00

SCALE

Shorter Seconds

1 LST second = 0.9843529… Earth seconds. LST ticks ~1.6% faster, so more LST time elapses per Earth-second.

× 0.9843529666671

STRUCTURE

60 · 60 · 24 · 30 · 12

Seconds → Minutes → Hours → Cycles → Days → Years. Same-shaped hierarchy as Earth time, scaled to a lunar rhythm.

YEAR-DAY-CYCLE ∇ H:M:S

OPEN SOURCE

I built this.

The conversion engine is a PHP library I wrote and open-sourced on GitHub. It's MIT licensed — clone it, use it, contribute.

# install via composer composer require vahid/solar-system # or clone git clone https://github.com/vahid-almasi/lunar