The consensus list of facts is an excellent idea. I wish the US could do this with health care: implement what everyone can agree with and debate the rest instead of holding everything hostage to winning a minor point.
I suggest that the terms second, minute, hour, day, and month stated without qualification have "normative" status: the SI second, 60 SI seconds, 3600 SI seconds, 86,400 SI seconds, and Gregorian calendar numbers of days expressed as 86,400 seconds. Anything else requires qualification such as: mean solar seconds. Actually I can't think of other forms of hour, day, etc. that require qualification, since those are neither fundamental time intervals nor time scales. An initial thought for discussion. Dave Finkleman Senior Scientist Center for Space Standards and Innovation Analytical Graphics, Inc. 7150 Campus Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Phone: 719-510-8282 or 719-321-4780 Fax: 719-573-9079 Discover CSSI data downloads, technical webinars, publications, and outreach events at www.CenterForSpace.com. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
