"Brij Bhushan Vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings for Captain and crew of Maverick: > This may be an expected intrusion, from an Ex-Air Forcean! > Yes, Knots and Nautical miles have lived far too long and it is TIME we > did some review. I have been feeding 'some NEW thought' to reform the > definitions of SI-base units for Time and Length standards. > If the (day+night)of 24-hours is divided into 24x100x100 instead of the > present 24x60x60; the *yard and nautical mile* could be commissioned into > 'history books' and 15-degree 'hour angle' be retained untouched. > Decimalisation of 'HOUR and Degree' could resolve to RETRIEVE the "concept > of Nautical Kilometre". > The New length standard shall be 1.11194886884 times the present *metre > length*, so as to merge with unit for Time - the 'decimal second which is > 36% of SI-second'. My good wishes Mr. Mead!
Originally (in revolutionary France), the metric system did include a metric clock, defined so that 1 day = 10 metric hours = 1 000 metric minutes = 100 000 metric seconds. This was so confusing that it was abandoned after 16 months -- even before the metric (aka Revolutionary) calendar. We've learned this lesson already. Let's not repeat it. Regards, John
