On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> I asked Ron Beard, and he said that there were no plans for written
> post-proceedings of this meeting. I personally would have liked very
> much to end up with a written book of everything that was presented and
> discussed.
Yet again I am struck by how u
> A propos of both the topic and the discussion of notation, I've observed
> that in the U.S., hospitals (where 24-hour notation, or "military time" as
> civilians inevitably call it) are one of the few businesses where wall
> clocks are nearly always set to the correct time (within+/- one minute,
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Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] pedagogically barren?
> "Seeds, Glen" wrote on 2003-06-04 15:00 UTC:
> > It's also true that changing to SI units for weight and volume is a l
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> (and the US
> military seem to drop the colon as in "1800" and say strange things like
> "eighteen hundred hours" instead of "eighteen o'clock").
They say "klicks" for "kilometers", too.
> I really wonder, why the modern notation doesn't
> catch on in the US, where even a
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Peter Bunclark wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, William Thompson wrote:
Markus Kuhn wrote:
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While the international inch is indeed linked to the meter by a
reasonably round factor, and even shows up indirectly in a number of ISO
standards (e.g., inch-based threads and pipes), t
>
> I'd be interested to hear how one measures the
> leading edge of the human life to death transition
> pulse with a precision that makes the UT1 vs.
> UTC question even relevant.
>
A husband has a will leaving everything to his wife, or if she dies first,
to their children. The wife has a will
"Seeds, Glen" wrote on 2003-06-04 15:00 UTC:
> It's also true that changing to SI units for weight and volume is a lot more
> technically tractable than for length. Public opposition would still be a
> big barrier, though.
That's what the UK have done. The imperial units of weight and volume
are n
Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] pedagogically barren?
The "modern" (formally, "24-hour") notation is as common as the 12-hour form in Quebec and France. That's probably the worst possible situation, as you never know what time "9" means. (Quebec is a little better, as the written form 9h00 always means
Peter Bunclark scripsit:
> Well would you Americans consider stopping calling them English Units?
> It makes me cringe every time the Mars Climate Observer crash is blamed on
> `English Units'.
You'd probably cringe if you went to an American restaurant for breakfast
and heard the waiter ask the
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, William Thompson wrote:
> Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> (stuff deleted)
>
> > While the international inch is indeed linked to the meter by a
> > reasonably round factor, and even shows up indirectly in a number of ISO
> > standards (e.g., inch-based threads and pipes), this c
Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] pedagogically barren?
It's also true that changing to SI units for weight and volume is a lot more technically tractable than for length. Public opposition would still be a big barrier, though.
/glen
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From: William Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PR
Markus Kuhn wrote:
(stuff deleted)
While the international inch is indeed linked to the meter by a
reasonably round factor, and even shows up indirectly in a number of ISO
standards (e.g., inch-based threads and pipes), this can clearly not be
said for the US pound and the US gallon and un
Steve Allen wrote on 2003-06-03 20:41 UTC:
> My point was that I believe the current list of offered solutions are
> not wild enough. If the SRG had clout I would expect to see it
> persuading the Galileo system to adopt TI = UTC at the time of launch,
> and then I would expect to see them persuad
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