It is an April Fool's joke, and the American press loves cheap shots at the metric system. They are too ignorant of metric to understand why it CAN'T happen.
The second is already defined, and is integral to the definitions of a large number of derived units. There is no requirement to divide the day into the current number of hours and minutes but it is ultimately 86400 s plus a variable few milliseconds which we fix with a leap second now and then. Factor 86400 s however you like but the second stays. (Both astronomers and programs like Excel or Access count days as integers and represent time of day as a decimal fraction. IERS, International Earth Rotation Services, is charged with precision time keeping and earth orientation and is part of the the BIPM. I think you can REALLY count on "nobody is changing the second." There are no serious proposals to change civil time to any kind of "metric time." There are some proposals to bundle leap seconds and do them "all at once" but less often. I am not sure if they have any real traction. ________________________________ From: Team Metric Info <i...@metricrules.org> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Sun, April 7, 2013 7:26:07 AM Subject: [USMA:52612] FW: Metric Time Conversion poses challenges to governments and people I think it is an April Fool’s joke from 2012. What is the deal with April 1 and Metric jokes- its crazy! From:Team Metric Info [mailto:i...@metricrules.org] Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2013 6:19 AM To: 'U.S. Metric Association' Subject: Metric Time Conversion poses challenges to governments and people Anyone know anything about metric time? http://niagarahub.com/2012/04/01/metric-time-conversion-poses-challenges-to-governments-and-people-by-andrea-galyn/
