How can you help?
First of all, you've already helped a lot, simply by reading this website. Standards will only succeed if enough people know about them, so
the biggest help of all is to simply spread the word! Aside from that, the following things still need some work:
- The Java reference implementation is usable by any JVM language, but ports to other languages, e.g. Python, C++ or JavaScript, would be very helpful.
- In order to use the Lukashian Calendar for an upcoming settlement on Planet Mars, we need answers to the three major questions for implementing the Lukashian Calendar there. Once we have the answers, we need precise calculations to establish the exact durations of days and years on Mars.
- Analog missions that simulate future Mars missions, can gain experience with the Lukashian Calendar by using the Earth implementation. After all, analog missions take place on Earth! Analog astronauts can use Lukashian days and years, and keep time using the Lukashian clock, while still being in sync with the daily and seasonal cycles of Earth.
- For Planet Earth, this is currently done with algorithms of Jean Meeus. A more accurate way of calculating this, perhaps according to VSOP, would be an improvement.
- "Moment" is an excellent name for 10 beeps, because it has a beautiful historical meaning, where it represents almost that exact amount of time. Similarly, we are looking for suitable words to represent 100 and 1000 beeps. An interesting task for a linguist perhaps? The words do not necessarily have to have a western origin, as long as they represent the correct amounts of time.
- While informative, this website could use some artistic and creative input, such as better designs, texts, graphics, videos, etc.
- Currently, the Java reference implementation has to correct for leap seconds whenever reading the system clock, since POSIX time deals with leap seconds by counting the same second twice. It would be easier to have another version of POSIX time that tracks Terrestrial Time, rather than UTC, so we don't need this correction. This could be very useful for other fields and applications as well.
- After reaching a certain level of stability, the aim is official ISO standardization. When that time comes, any experience there would be welcome.
If you would like to help in any of the above areas, or something else entirely, then please
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Your help is much appreciated!
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