Hàlsun pronounced: Hal-sun
Hàlsun is the .25 day or half day that occurs at the end of each Martian Month. It is called Hàlsun (based on the phrase “half-sun”) and is celebrated as a holiday where Martians sleep for the half day, then awaken and party
hard till the sun comes up again.
There are 57.25 days in a Martian month and the calendar is remotely based on the old
Earth Gregorian Calendar.
Seasons: 4
Months in a year: 12
Earth days in a Martian Year: 687 (Martian days are called Sols)
Sols in a month: 57.25
Sols in a week: 12
Hours in a Sol:
26 - technically a solar day lasts about 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds on
Mars, which can be rounded up to 25 hours a day. This was the original Sol time per day prior to
Mars’s colonization. However, the Emperor decided that there will be 26 hours in a day. Leron wanted the clocks to
go from 1-
13 because it looks cooler and it meant the
Mars clocks would be different than the Earth clocks. That and he and his Martians get 1 hour 21 min and 25 seconds a day to sleep or to do
whatever. When the Martian clocks strike the 13th hour, time “stops” for the hour and 21 minutes, before the clocks reset and tic again.
- Escape from Boulevard Book
Tomorrow is Hàlsun, that
special last half day of Lythar-7, which meant Leron would have to prepare the palace for the raging
party to ensue.
Bro, are you stoked Hàlsun, or what? The
party is gonna be insane!
