Abstract
The Martian Time Survey, which can be accessed from the Martian Time website at http://www.martiantime.net collects data over the World Wide Web from respondents regarding their preferences for a timekeeping system for Mars. While more than 40 clock systems and more than 80 calendar systems are known to date to have been invented for Mars since 1880, a seldom considered aspect of timekeeping as an academic study is its social component. There are a great many mathematically valid solutions for a Martian clock and calendar, based on the planet's period of rotation and revolution; however, the subject of timekeeping, including both horology and calendrics, is where the space sciences and the social sciences intersect. Although time is a physical phenomenon, how humans design and use time is a function of culture; time is socially constructed. The Martian Time Survey seeks to develop the often-overlooked social construction of time for the future human habitation of Mars. Although a true social construction requires a functioning society on Mars, the survey represents the first steps on Earth taken on the path to Mars.
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