When humans finally start settling the red planet, we will have to get used to a lot of changes. One of these changes is in the length of days and years. With a day being 39 minutes longer on Mars and a year almost twice that of our own, we will have to get used to a completely different calendar! This project will tell you the current time on the Martian prime meridian and give you a visual of what time it is on different parts of the planet. This project also will tell you what the current day is using the Darian calendar. The Darian calendar is by no means official, but I decided to include it for fun anyways. If you would like to learn about timekeeping on Mars, just click on the different areas in the project and a brief explanation will appear. A lot of this information is from wikipedia and other sites, I compiled a list of sources below. I made this by using the amazing "days since 2000" block, calculating the amount of time between January 1st, 2000 and beginning of the Julian Calendar and using this formula from wikipedia: Mars Sol Date = (Julian Day − 2405522.0028779) / 1.0274912517 After you figure out the Mars Sol Date the rest is pretty trivial. (kinda) I *think* this should be accurate to roughly a second but I may have to do some tweaking later. The visual of Mars is not 100% accurate though and is mostly used for giving you a general idea of what time of day it is at any given location on Mars. This is a very different type of project from what I usually make but hopefully someone will find it interesting. While working on this I kinda got lost in it and was more familiar with Mars time than Earth time for a while lol Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_meridian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day http://ops-alaska.com/time/gangale_converter/calendar_clock.htm Also this is basically a clone of an actual computer program made by NASA called Mars24, linked below. https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/ (This project was shared on Sagittarius 8th, 219)
