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Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 12:41:12 PM UTC-7, Mike Collins wrote:
Kurt Vonnegut had a Martian calendar in 1959. You should see the Martian calendar I came up with! Since the lunar month and the tropical year are incommensurate, there are lunar calendars - the Chinese and the Jewish - that have years with either 12 or 13 months. I proposed a Martian calendar which alternated between 22 months and 23 months, with usually four out of every seven years having 23 months. http://www.quadibloc.com/science/cal0503.htm In this way, a Martian year would be divided into months having the same length as 1/12 of an Earth tropical year. Handy for paycheques, paying one's rent, and reconing people's ages in Martian twelvemonths rather than Martian years - thus lending itself to better integration between the Martian economy and Martian law with their counterparts on Earth. John Savard |
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