[HN Gopher] Mars Needs Leap Days Too
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       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
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       | 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.
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         | 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
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             | Jupiter day
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             | Saturn day => Saturnday => Saturday
        
           | reaperducer wrote:
           | "Today," or "tosol?"
        
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