SpaceX: We're putting people on Mars.
Developers: Great, more timezones to support.
And lets not talk about calendars...
Ooh pleas let me know the name of the vid or maybe give me a link?
That sounds like its right up my alley
@Ambraven @ghedipunk
Oh yeah...
One Martian year is 686 days.
No, it's 668.5 days.
(Yes, both are right... My number is how many Martian days a Martian year is... And you know that some developer will get the numbers confused, and it'll sit in a shared library for at least a couple Martian years until someone actually checks a different calendar.)
:D
If we need some leap year kinda stuff, this 0.5 is gonna help, right?
Or do Mars already have leap years?
From what I understand, the Mars missions use a running count of Martian days (Sols) from when the science part of the mission started, and ignore counting years of any type, whether Terran or Martian.
Don't use me as a source, though. All I know is that the Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity rovers use the Sol that they landed as Sol 1. Other missions may have other standards, such as time since launch.
@ghedipunk
Yes, Sols. The Martian movie talks about this.
I'm about to read a bit more about this, as it feels interesting
@Ambraven
@ghedipunk
I was actually watching a really interesting workaround of using a solar calendar
And just making the second/hour/day based off of earth's and having the excess minutes that don't match a bleed off 'witching hour' at 0000