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The short answer is that it takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth. If the Sun suddenly disappeared from the Universe (not that this could actually happen, don't panic), it would take a little more than 8 minutes before you realized it was time to put on a sweater.
The transfer itself goes from Earth to Mars in a direct path, which looks like half of a big ellipse with respect to the sun, starting at the Earth and ending at Mars. However, when Watney finds himself stranded, Mars and the Earth are not in a good alignment, and it will take 414 days for supplies to get there!