Mark Calabretta scripsit:
> >Mean solar days don't affect me to speak of.
>
> We're looking for a solution which will satisfy the broadest spectrum
> of users with the least inconvenience.
I meant "me as random citizen", not "me as me".
> >What for? Why should we (the people of the Earth) care
On Tue 2003/01/28 23:10:07 CDT, John Cowan wrote
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>I at least care that a *civil* day be 86400 SI seconds in length.
This begs the question of why you care.
>Mean solar days don't affect me to speak of.
We're looking for a solution which will satisfy the broade
Steve Allen scripsit:
> Which is more important...
> for civil time to be counted in SI seconds?
> for civil time to track the rotation of earth smoothly?
IMHO the former.
> Mark's alternative resembles the civil time solution adopted by the
> martian colonists in Kim Stanley Rob
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:33:48AM -0800, Steve Allen wrote:
> > What for? Why should we (the people of the Earth) care about mean
> > solar days? For some purposes, apparent solar time is important, but
> > most of the time it's civil time that counts. Why should that be tied
> > to mean solar
On Tue 2003-01-28T23:10:07 -0500, John Cowan hath writ:
> Dr. Mark Calabretta scripsit:
>
> > Much of the problem boils down to the question of why we would want
> > to continue to pretend that a mean solar day has exactly 86400 SI
> > seconds when in fact, it has 86400+epsilon SI seconds.
>
> I at
Dr. Mark Calabretta scripsit:
> Much of the problem boils down to the question of why we would want
> to continue to pretend that a mean solar day has exactly 86400 SI
> seconds when in fact, it has 86400+epsilon SI seconds.
I at least care that a *civil* day be 86400 SI seconds in length.
Mean s
On Mon 2003/01/27 18:21:02 -, Ed Davies wrote
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>Everything would be a lot simpler and more reliable if all systems
>could work with a single simple "universal" time scale which:
>
>1. Has SI length seconds.
>
>2. Has minutes of 60 seconds, hours of 3'600 secon
