On Jan 2, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Rob Seaman wrote: > 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?
I think time passed before there was an earth to have nights or days. > Does anybody have references for units of precise (short) duration prior to > Galileo's pendulum? Oh, in human experience... Warner > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
