Daniel R. Tobias <[email protected]> wrote:

> How would the people on this list who advocate for various treatments 
> of future timekeeping in our own world deal with that situation?  On 
> the one hand, it's of great importance to the settlers' lives that 
> they coordinate their time in some manner with the local solar time; 
> [...]
> On the other hand, I expect they have a good deal of gadgetry and 
> scientific instruments which probably have dependencies on 
> frequencies and interval timing that are based firmly on the SI 
> second.  So how would you reconcile this if you were the leader of 
> this colony?

Exactly the same as my proposal for today's world: maintain two
completely separate and independent kinds of time.

MS
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