Dear Mike, Please reread my message again. You'll see that I was not 'pushing' for metric time. What I said was, *IF* one is to metricate time *THEN* this is what should be done.
Marcus On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:22:29 Mike Joy wrote: >Marcus and Brij, > >You guys can forget about metricating time - we are stuck with the 24hr >format. We have a hard enough job converting the US with the accepted units >in the SI system without complicating things by adding Time to it. > >Of course, by rights Time should be decimalised, and they tried to do that >in France when the metric system was first drawn up but IT WAS TOO >DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT. > >So let's drop the subject from our list and create a separate list just for >that subject if you want to push metric time. Don't use this one. > >Mike Joy > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:52 AM >Subject: [USMA:23146] Re: Drudge 24 h format > > >| I do understand you were just trying to remind folks of why you (still >seem to, anyways...) defend the use of the number 24 for number of hours in >a day. However, I feel I must also 'remind' folks here why this proposal >CANNOT be defended by SI supporters. >| >| While even in your proposal one does not see the *necessity* for a change >to the size of the meter, the fact of the matter is that 24 is NOT DECIMAL. >Therefore, by this factor ALONE this proposal is flawed. >| >| What we would need (IF we are to fix the time framework) is to >**DECIMALIZE** the time construct *COMPLETELY* to bring it in line with SI >decimal principles. NOTHING short of that can be acceptable, *period*!!! >| >| Marcus >| >| On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 01:56:56 >| Brij Bhushan Vij wrote: >| >Mike and friends: >| >Man has been stuck to use 24hx60mx60s clock because of its ease with >which >| >to know 'position of zodiacs and stars' as they imbed into us through >| >astrologers and forecast experts (in a way to make their fair bread). >This >| >ease has been because the number '60' is rationally divisible by >| >2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 and 24-hour 'zones' in time keeping. >| >I have often been questioned why *this half hearted* approach, in my >| >attempts to 'decimalise Time i.e. 24hx100mdx100sd or defining decimal >| >second to be 1/240000th of the atomic day'? As mentioned in my several >| >posts; any new interval for time shall have to be linked with a >'compatible' >| >length unit - in the proposed case 1.11194886884 times the present >Metre, to >| >link with Nautical astronomy/distances'. >| > I hope this make sense! Regards, >| >Brij B. Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
