Clive D.W. Feather <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another way is to have TAI hours and minutes and seconds, with each day > ending with a partial hour. Digital time displays would have no problem > with this, calculators can be used if you actually need to work out how > long an interval stretching over midnight was, and analogue clocks and > watches become intriguing gadgets (noting it's no more difficult than my > radio-controlled clock that moves its hands around to correct the time, or > my wristwatch whose analogue stopwatch winds back when I reset it or > forwards when I end a pause).
This is the arrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, South Bailey: Southwesterly veering westerly 6 to gale 8, occasionally 5 at first, perhaps severe gale 9 later in Rockall and south Bailey. Rough or very rough becoming very rough or high. Rain or squally showers. Moderate or poor, occasionally good. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
