A Calendar for Mars
summary
A working Single Page Application converts Earth dates to the Zubrin Martian calendar and displays the current Mars sol ≈ 24h40m using a tiny Python MarsDate class with four methods (today, getdate, month_str, date_str) and a Roman‑numeral year formatter. The calendar uses Zubrin calendar: 12 months of 30° so month lengths vary widely (roughly 46 to 66 sols, about a 20‑day spread). Front end is Flask + Bootstrap + Backbone.js with RequireJS; the app runs and shows live Martian dates.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00History of calendar systems
- 4:46Measuring time on Mars
- 6:42Martian calendar proposals
- 9:58The Zubrin calendar
- 12:32Calendar math and logic
- 17:12Implementing with Python
- 20:47Building the web application
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