Jon S Berndt writes:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002 09:48:06 -0500 (CDT)
>   "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >> ... and the SI unit for temperature is Kelvin, no? 
> >>    :->
> >
> >So what is the SI unit for direction/heading?  Certainly 
> >they wouldn't overload unit names, right?  :-)
> 
> 
> One of the worst things about metric, though, is the 100 
> minute hours - which isn't really an hour, but a 
> "hecto-moment". There are 100 days in a metric year, so 
> the seasons are on a rotating basis. The upside is that 
> we'll all live to be very old in metric terms.

Wouldn't you just divide up the year into 100 equal divisions and call
each of those a day?  That way you the seasons would be fixed relative
to the calander.

Then you could have 10 deci-years (months?) and 100 centi-years
(days?)  Of course you wouldn't want to call it a year because that
would imply the old system so we'd have to come up with something
else.  Being a one time battle star galactica fan, we could borrow
from that.

Let's root out the last vestiges of inconsistancy!

:-)

Curt.
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