"It occurs to me that in the forseeable future humankind will have colonies on other planets in the solar system. These planets will obviously have need of different calendars than are presently in use on the earth. This is necessitated by the fact that they have different day lenghts and substantially different year lengths. With the explosion of different calendars this provides, there becomes some need of a standard interplanetary calendar for scientific and commercial purposes. Most fiction writers just use the gregorian calendar that much of the human population of the earth uses. However, there is no particular need for the interplanetary calendar to be based on any particular local calendar. In fact, it is probably better if it isn't. The rest of this document includes a proposal for such a calendar."
http://lost.l-w.ca/theoretical/calendar.txt
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