"Will Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:47:11 +0000, Bob George wrote:
>
> > I might wake up at 1300 to go to work, but so what? Why are we insisting
on
> > sticking to an antiquated timebase intended to help early farmers which
has
> > become totally out of sync with today's reality anyhow?
>
> To me, I think what we should do is develop a system of time where the
bases are all consistent. Think of this:
>
> 1) minutes and hours use base 60
> 2) days use base 24
> 3) weeks use base 7
> 4) months vary between base 28, 29, 30, and 31
> 5) years use base 365, and sometimes 366.
You earthlings are learning...
> of course, this is why we need complicated algorithms to do date
arithmetic, and makes programmers pull out their hair {:^>).
What is "hair"?
- Bob
(From outer space)
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