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!
