Don Hillger has kindly asked that we do not clutter up his mailing list with
discussions of calendar reform, and I think the same applies to time reform
as well.  We are trying to promote the adoption of SI, not the modification
of SI or our system of time.

As has been mentioned before, there are discussion forums on the Internet
elsewhere where one can discuss topics such as these.

Brij, we will *never* change the value of the meter or the second.  It will
not happen unless God himself tells us to change them.  It will certainly
not happen just to satisfy your desire for a decimal clock.

The period of rotation of the Earth is an experimentally determined value.
It changes measurably.  Both of these disqualify it for the basis of a
measurement system.  That is why the meter and second were redefined to be
based on something universal.  The kilogram will probably be redefined soon
to meet the same requirements.  In every one of these changes, the new value
is as close as possible to the old one.

Your ideas for a new length standard and time standard do not fit in with SI
and we do *not* support them.  Proclaiming measurement units that only you
recognize distracts from the real issue of supporting SI.  If you talk about
this stuff with the public you will only confuse them and confirm their
suspicion that the metric system is strange.  The last thing we need is to
sound out of touch with reality, and your ideas about redefining the units
are completely unrealistic, now and in the future.

Carl

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