Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:25:35 +0100, Paul Schlyter
wrote:
On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:15:36 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
A similar calendar on Jupiter would have to have about 300
months
of
about 30 days each. Perhaps we should refrain from trying to
name
these months and just number them instead?
Or maybe use something like stardates. A year with as many
decimal
places as make sense given the length of that year.
Are you suggesting that the day-night cycle should be ignored?
No. But you could eliminate months by simply having a fractional
year
and a day count. That's akin to numbered months.
The months on Jupiter would have to be short anyway, from 2 to 16
Earth days, depending on which of the four big moons you'd like to
sync it with.
Maybe better to keep them based on the colonists' menstrual cycles...
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