[HN Gopher] Mars Needs Leap Days Too ___________________________________________________________________ Mars Needs Leap Days Too Author : Hooke Score : 16 points Date : 2020-02-29 19:23 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | labster wrote: | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars | | I think you'll want more detail than the article gave. | jolmg wrote: | > The term sol is used by planetary scientists to refer to the | duration of a solar day on Mars. The term was adopted during | the Viking project in order to avoid confusion with an Earth | day. By inference, Mars' "solar hour" is 1/24 of a sol, and a | solar minute 1/60 of a solar hour. | | I wish they would have picked another name. As a Spanish | speaker, I can't stop my mind translating "sol" to "sun". I can | already imagine hearing someone say, "how was your sun today?" | strbean wrote: | It truly seems like an awful convention compared to the | common "<planet> day" or "<planet> hour". | piinbinary wrote: | Mars day | | Jupiter day | | Saturn day => Saturnday => Saturday | reaperducer wrote: | "Today," or "tosol?" | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-02 23:00 UTC)