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Because then seconds are longer on the moon, so if you tell your spaceship “burn fuel for 16.52891 seconds” it may burn fuel for slightly too long or too short if two people on the team used different definitions of seconds. We’ve already had historical spacecraft malfunctions due to confusion about units.
Communication requirements rely on time being in sync, but engineering requirements rely on time having a time having a fixed length definition.
The real solution is probably something like a time zone that relative to earth time progresses faster but periodically adds leap seconds, or something along those lines.
This isn’t that outrageous of a solution when you learn that we are frequently adding leap seconds to our earth clocks already.