On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:33:48AM -0800, Steve Allen wrote:
What for? Why should we (the people of the Earth) care about mean
solar days? For some purposes, apparent solar time is important, but
most of the time it's civil time that counts. Why should that be tied
to mean solar days?
Steve Allen scripsit:
Which is more important...
for civil time to be counted in SI seconds?
for civil time to track the rotation of earth smoothly?
IMHO the former.
Mark's alternative resembles the civil time solution adopted by the
martian colonists in Kim Stanley
On Mon 2003/01/27 18:21:02 -, Ed Davies wrote
in a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Everything would be a lot simpler and more reliable if all systems
could work with a single simple universal time scale which:
1. Has SI length seconds.
2. Has minutes of 60 seconds, hours of 3'600 seconds and
Dr. Mark Calabretta scripsit:
Much of the problem boils down to the question of why we would want
to continue to pretend that a mean solar day has exactly 86400 SI
seconds when in fact, it has 86400+epsilon SI seconds.
I at least care that a *civil* day be 86400 SI seconds in length.
Mean
