What time is it right now on Mars? There's a NASA app for that.

And you can download it right here, for Mac, Windows, Linux, OS/2, and other open operating systems. About:

Mars24 is a Java application which displays a Mars sunclock, a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle and path for a given location on Mars.

Created at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

And for iOS, this looks promising. Haven't tried it, and it's not a NASA product, so YMMV.

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I am shocked at how close a martian day is to an earth day.

A Martian day is 24 earth hours and 37 earth minutes.
- http://twitter.com/bookofsand Maximus Clarke
  
  Yes… I’ve thought that it’d be awfully nice to live on Mars and get to sleep an extra 37 minutes every day.
  - nixiebunny
    
    Or to stay up an extra 37 minutes playing your “Mars Lander” video game.
    - http://twitter.com/bungs1 B
      
      Only if you have kinect
nixiebunny

I really should get a job across the street from my current job, so I could work on Mars stuff, so I’d have an excuse to reprogram my Nixie watch for Mars time.
ChickieD

One of my high school classmates, David Oh, is the Lead Flight Coordinator for the Mars Rover. His family is all switching to “Mars time” while the rover is on Mars. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81141
http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

Thank God there’s an OS/2 version of the app! The OS for the rest of us.
- http://twitter.com/bazimmerman Brad Zimmerman
  
  Atari’s GEM OS is the OS for me; the rest of you OS/2 commies can burn! Burn, I say!