Hello;
If you think about it, hours, minutes and seconds are an
awkward system for using time.
My idea would be to switch to a 360 degree clock.
The earth is round and makes one complete revolution per
day, 360 degrees. So why not measure time based on what
angle of degree the earth happens
I guess if I am going to get rid of hours and minutes it
would be a good time to get rid of the 360 degree circle as
well.
Maybe my new circle would have 100 degrees.
Midnight would be 100 degrees
6am would be 25 degrees
noon would be 50 degrees
6pm would be 75 degrees
Now we are getting
It's also possible to think of degrees, arcminutes, etc., as a cryptic
notation, given the long history of timekeeping. I have a set of 7-place
trig tables, published in 1958 by H.M. Nautical Almanac Office, with the
argument in time.
For example, this book lists the tangent of 1h 38m 13s as
Brent,
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time - French
Revolutionary Time and Fractional Days both seem to have a bearing on
your Angular Clocks.
Why go with 100 degrees in a day? Radians are a well understood, and
completely suitable alternative. Lunchtime would become Pi
I believe 100 divisions are called gradients. Someone already did it.
Tom L.
-Original Message-
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
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Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:19 PM
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Subject: Re: 360 degree
I guess if I am
Sorry about that, 400 gradients in a circle by British military. Cut it up
any way you like and call the resulting divisions whatever you like. Have
fun
Tom
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From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of Tom Laidlaw
Sent: Tuesday,
Hi Brent,
If you were in charge of things, we could call you Napoleon. What you are
proposing is the French Republican system, the metric system applied to
time, 100 grad for a quadrant, 90 degrees, 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per
hour, all totally rational. They even produced clocks and
