Christoph Berg wrote:

> Of course, Wikipedia has something to say about this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars

Nice.

> I especially like MTC, Mars Time Coordinated. But whatever scheme gets
> chosen, it won't be a standard 24h day, so PostgreSQL has a whole lot
> of different problems to solve than to "fix" that little
> Mars/Mons_Olympus gem now... :)

Maybe a new type, mars_timestamptz()?  Or perhaps the celestial body
name should be part of the typmod for standard timestamptz ...?

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