"Carl Sorenson" wrote on 2002-07-23 03:21 UTC: > Amen to this! I will be one of the ones yelling, because new calendar > proposals and clocks would distract from the important job of metricating > the U.S.
I agree enthusiastically! This is the US Metric mailing list. If anyone wants to reform calendars and civilian time notations, please set up a calendar reform mailing list. You might find with a bit of research that there are already several. This is in my opinion not the place to discuss any new units of measurement or notations outside the scope of existing ISO, IEC, BIPM, ANSI, IEEE, NIST, etc. standards and guidelines. It takes already enough effort to get people interested in date/time notation reforms as mild and obviously sensible as ISO 8601 (see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html). Please let's cut down on distractions and focus on the use and proliferation in daily life of existing international standards. The calendar reform stuff might be intellectually very interesting, but it is completely unrelated to the scope of this mailing list, since it would be a new standard, not the introduction of an already widely used existing one. [Also, none of the proposers of calendar reforms I have seen here recently seems to be aware of the dozens of reforms proposed over the last 300 years. They should first do their homework, find or compile a comprehensive bibliography on the subject and read and categorize the already existing literature on the subject.] Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
