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Non-terrestrial calendars
The Martian Business Calendar [1] describes a hypothetical calendar for Mars.
It's only marginally more complex than the Gregorian calendar we currently
use and the tradeoffs made are interesting to read about (it includes a “leap
week” instead of our “leap day” and the reasons for it are both rational and
irrational at the same time, depending upon your point of view). But what I
would like to see is a Venusian calendar—what tradeoffs have to be made as
the Venusian day is longer than the Venusian year.
[1]
http://www.bdm.id.au/calendar/mars_calendar.html
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