Marcus wrote "In Startrek's star date, it will be
2001.10.37.9.99.99 changing to 2002.01.01.0.00.00".
Its actually
"2001.9.37.9.99.99 changing to 2002.0.01.0.0.00"
where 2001 is year
9 is last month (0 is first month)
37 is last day (we need not start with 0, since there
are 37 days and not 10 days)
9 is hours
99 is minutes
last 99 is seconds
Where ever 10 is there, it can
start from 0 and end with 9, that way we save 1 digit.
I like Marcus' star trek idea.
A second tourist is about to go to space through
Russian agency.
May be when man colonises Moon, we can apply the
metric date and time there.
Madan
--- Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:20:50 -0800
> From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [USMA:17153] Re: Aren't there *24* hours in
> a day?...
> Organization: Angelfire
> (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80)
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:54:59
> Duncan Bath wrote:
> >We don't see (eg.) 5:60 momentarily then 6:00.
> >What's the problem? (If there is one)
> >D.
> >...
> Good point, Duncan. Nonetheless, being that minutes
> and seconds would just be temporary vis-a-vis a
> larger entity, day, and given that we were
> discussing the issue of possible confusion emerging
> from whether one should use 24 of 04 jan, or 00 of
> 05 jan, for instance, I felt that this could be
> particularly addressed by my proposal. Besides,
> with your example above one can proceed further,
> i.e. from 05 to 06, whereas with 24 that would be
> "end of the line", if you know what I mean...
>
> If, one day, we manage to create a "supra-time
> reckoning system" of the likes of "star date" of
> Star Trek, then, evidently, on that day, changes
> would be just like we see in your example, i.e.
> 2001.10.37.9.99.99 changing to 2002.01.01.0.00.00
> (whatever... :-S)
>
> Marcus
>
>
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