On Jan 2, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2014, at 4:25 AM, Rob Seaman wrote: > >> On Jan 2, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ignorance is never good policy. >>> >>> Poul-Henning >> >> The irony is strong with this one. >> >> "Day" is a more established concept than duration. Both are needed to >> express the inherent complexity of timekeeping in either real or virtual >> worlds. > > Only for some applications.... Even astronomers need to deal with durations > that are affected by the changes in the length of the day, so saying one is > more fundamental than the other from that community is picking and choosing... > > Warner
I said "more established", not "more fundamental" - or do you think stopwatches came before day and night? Does anybody have references for units of precise (short) duration prior to Galileo's pendulum? Rob _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
