As I've pointed out here before, we already have SI (metric) time. It's called the second. It is the only SI unit approved for that purpose. Minutes, hours and days are non-SI units, approved for use with SI.
For scientific purposes, we can use the unit symbol "s" with any of the approved prefixes. (Even non-scientists are familiar with ms, �s and ns.) For keeping appointments and checking schedules, minutes, hours, months and years are not really a burden. There's not a whole lot we can do about months and years, anyway, as they're based on phenomena over which we have no control. We don't control days either, but at least they're really close to being uniform in length. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of James Wentworth >Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 15:34 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:25329] Battlestar Galactica (Re: metric clocks) > > >I respectfully suggest that those who are interested in metric >clocks should >restrict their postings on the subject to Battlestar Galactica enthusiast >newsgroups. (For those who may be unfamiliar with Battlestar Galactica, it >was a late-1970s science fiction television show in which >decimal-based time >units [centons, microns, etc.] were used.) > >Metric time is a nice idea, but it has about as much of a chance of being >adopted as Esperanto does of becoming the world language. T'ain't gonna >happen. When I receive such posts, they are instantly deleted unread. >Let's stick to SI, folks! -- Jason
