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I assume there are people at NASA / SpaceX/ etc. in charge of writing custom MarsDate modules for various languages. Sounds horrible. I'm not even sure we've so

• ShinTakuya 7y ago
  I'd be more interested to see if a more generalised PlanetDate module could be written. Perhaps outside of Earth we could do away with months and just stick to days (based on rotations, assuming the planet rotates) and years, with leap days added in between? And if the planet doesn't rotate, just count by hours and years (with hours having a logical separator at 10 or 100)?
  • dahfizz 7y ago
    I think any interplanetary civilization will be practically forced to use a planet-agnostic time system - a true UTC
    • wahern 7y ago
      That'd be TCB--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time But we'd need a different standard if we colonized planets outside our solar system.
• peterburkimsher 7y ago
  We haven't figured out how to deal with time on Earth yet! https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
• dehrmann 7y ago
  You also have to somehow synchronize second counters in a way that accounts for relativistic effects.