From: epawtows@cowpie.acm.vt.edu   
      
   It's been reported in many places that the MER teams   
   are operating on "Mars time"..i.e., days that are   
   ~24 hrs. and 39 minutes long.   
      
   Does anyone know the details of how the discrepancy is   
   made up?  I.E., do the clocks that the teams look at display?   
   Did they create a 25th "hour" in the day that's only ~39   
   minutes long?  Did they keep a 24-hour clock, but make the hour   
   longer?  And if the latter, did they add extra minutes to   
   each hour, add extra seconds to each minute, make the   
   second longer, or what?   
      
   It seems unlikely that they would want to tamper with the   
   second, minute, or hour, as those are all units that can   
   be used in basic engineering caculations.  Altering those   
   could cause problems.   
      
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