Mars clock
Ack Ack Ack Ack Ack!It was my friend Peter who got me into timekeeping "nerding". He is a devoted fan of Mars colonization and author of few articles about timekeeping on other celestial bodies. He inspired me to make a simple app to help me (and you!) to see what time it is on other places in our Solar system.
------------------------------------------------------ Earth | Time | Date | ------------------------------------------------------ Silicon Valley | 20:05 | 12-03(Mar)-2025 | Boston | 23:05 | 12-03(Mar)-2025 | London* | 04:05 | 13-03(Mar)-2025 | Tokyo | 13:05 | 13-03(Mar)-2025 | ------------------------------------------------------ Mars | Time | Date | ------------------------------------------------------ Jezero Crater | 06:37 | 03-04(Mak)-222 | Gale Crater | 10:37 | 03-04(Mak)-222 | Olympus Mons* | 16:37 | 03-04(Mak)-222 | Tharsis Tholus | 19:37 | 03-04(Mak)-222 | Conv. Prime Meridian | 01:37 | 04-04(Mak)-222 | ------------------------------------------------------ * 0 offset time zone
The idea was to create the most humanly readable modification of the Darian calendar On contrary to the original, the epoch starts on UTC 00:00 11th April, 1609 (invention / first use of telescope) with year 1, not year 0. Aditionaly, the time zone with zero offset was chosen not conventionally (the first landing spot / prime meridian) but rather by matching the converted time with actual daylight on the Red Planet.
As you can see, the Mars clock is not autoupdating itself like traditional clock, because I didn't want to DDOS myself nor invade your client with any scripting. It is also not very usefull extraterrestrially, so I made a portable version which you can fit on your Raspberry Pi or any device running Java. It runs in GUI mode and terminal as well.
Mars clock is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE like aerospace engineering, tax payments and/or time travel.