On 7/15/11 3:17 AM, Steve Rooke wrote:
Well, instead of leap seconds which seem to be the biggest bug bear
for everyone, keep the second as 1/86,400 of the earths current
rotation and adjust the factor used in the calculation of atomic time
on a regular basis. No more leap seconds just leap atomic division
factor. Unless you can try and convince the world that all this hours,
minutes and seconds thing will have to change and some new system for
defining the day with the granularity of some arbitrarily chosen
factor of atomic time (which was in line with the earth's rotation 50
years ago or so) is worked out. The day that the second was defined in
an atomic form has always meant that it bears little relationship to
the idea of a second that was held before it and is used in the real
world of wall clock time now.
why stay with the ridiculous base 60 system inherited from the Babylonians?
Why not decimalize it. Oh wait, that was tried a few hundred years ago,
but perhaps the time is now right? If the UK can decimalize pounds,
shillings, and pence, perhaps it is time to bow to the decimal hegemony.
As I write this at Sextidi 26 Messiador an CCXIX a 5:63:49 t.m.P.
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