Talk:Darian calendar
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The last paragraph, concerning Gangale orbits and modifications to the US Presidential Primary, seems offtopic for this page. Move to a seperate entry on Thomas Gangale? Alba 03:39, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Sols of the week
Isn't it a bit silly to call the third sol of the week Sol Martis? Wouldn't it be better suited as Sol Terrae? Gee Eight, 11 January 2006, 20:24 (UTC)
[edit] Months
Do the "months" have any connection with the orbital periods of Martian moons?
- No.
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- — Ŭalabio‽ 06:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Irregular Weeks
The calendar does not preserve the cycle of the days of the week. This would be unacceptable for members of religions that include the seven-day week in their beliefs. It would also be inconvenient for businesses. Pay periods are generally either 1 or 2 weeks, a fixed number of days. This would require that, several times a year, you have a payperiod that is reduced by one day. In addition, this would require that several times a year you either reduce the workweek by one day, or take a day out of the weekend. Workers would not be thrilled about teh second, and employers wouldn't be happy about the first. Nik42 01:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other planets
In 1998, Gangale adapted the Darian calendar for use on the four Galilean moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. In 2003, he created a variant of the calendar for Titan. Why? Why would you need a calendar for those moons? They're too far away for the position of the sun to matter. Any colony established on those moons would be self-contained, and whether its day or night wouldn't matter much, and there'd be no importance to where in its orbit it is. Mars, at least, could conceivably be terraformed, in which case keeping track of seasons might be useful Nik42 01:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
As you'd know if you'd actually bothered to read the linked pages, the calendars for the Galilean satellites are based on their orbit around Jupiter, not around the sun. As for whether the time of day and season would be important there, we just can't know - to assert that it wouldn't is pure speculation. -- Tom Anderson 2008-02-09 (Gregorian) 1720 +0000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.81.193 (talk) 17:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Importance
What makes this particular Martian calendar notable? I've never heard of this calendar, and the article doesn't indicate why I should have. A Martian calendar per se isn't notable: anyone who knows the length of the Maritan solar day, and the Martian orbital period, and has a few hours to play around with the ratios could generate one. -- 99.231.58.54 (talk) 02:36, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
