Talk:Timekeeping on Mars
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[edit] Simple Mars Clock
I don't think it's appropriate to place computer code in encyclopedia articles. A better idea is to describe the algorithm such that anyone can implement it in any language they choose. It would look better and take up less space. -- B.d.mills (T, C)
- Could someone verify if this formula correct, I copy-paste the code to Excel and it gives me a result different from Mars24 from NASA. - Yaohua2000 21:05, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
- The formula is correct, and I have verified it against the display in Mars24. However, the result that it generates is the MSD, Mars Sol Date, and not MTC as it is labeled. To convert the value to MTC on the current sol, paste
- =MOD(A1,1)*24
- into cell A2 of your spreadsheet (assuming you have pasted the original formula into cell A1). The result will be MTC in hours, which you'll have to munge appropriately to extract the minutes and seconds values. - 208.59.133.14 09:16, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Kim Stanley Robinson
Not a great fan of this writer, but didn't he steal this idea from Phillip K. Dicks' Martian Timeslip? --MacRusgail 19:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
