Again, the Metric Time! I am trying to update those who wish the 'metric gap' to remain as it is! The misatke which you all wish to make it again *is non-discussion* of the serious topic. The arc-angle 'GON' goes well with the length unit - metre. BUT, the quadrant shall be 100�x100'x100" arc-seconds (This is what I called: The Metric Second (both for time and arc-angle). Marcus want to call it with adifferent name *CENTIME*. 400�metric to the circle.
Axial spin of Earth fits beautifully to find local time at any place using 10/20 hour day and 10/5 metric minutes per degree longitude giving 1000/2000 metric minutes (replacing the 4 minute per degree giving 1440 minutes). METRE length is retained *only if 20-metric hours are used or else lenmgtgh units NEED be made TWICE the metre - close to fathom.
Change the 'sabbath cycle' from 7 to TEN days in the calendar or make these in TWO QUINTO day periods: each of a million(10^6) metric seconds.
The Metric calendar I have talked for alomost 20 years. I did not get BUYERS and changed my course to NO CHANGES in clock face (of 24-hours) and/or calendar format (using 7-day sabbath and Additional Leap Week, during YEARS divisible by six(6)* and arrive at the *definitions for New LENGTH and Time Units*.
These are all easy to link with Systeme Internationale d'Unites (SI). I am clear in my mind THINK TANKS refuse to acknowledge this, that feasibility and proposals that I have advanced during past 30-odd years has its merit and propose the cost involved. What is the cost factor against the savings that an EVER FIXED calendar format is going to bring in?
If any people are wanting to discuss he issue, it muist be on technical basis and NOT on <who is this metricvij?>
Well,
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! ***** ***** ***** *****
From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:25347] Re: Battlestar Galactica (Re: metric clocks) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:45:01 -0800
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:25:00 James Wentworth wrote: >...My only objection is against those who want to push >decimal-based multiples of the second ("metric minutes," "metric hours," >etc.). The 24 hour clock, like the 360 degree unit circle, is too >universally ingrained to be seriously challenged.
? With all due respect, Jim, I'm sorry, but what sort of logic is that? If we were to follow your rationale then forget about metricating the US because I'd bet that the overwhelming majority of Americans would agree that ifp is 'too ingrained (in our society) to be seriously challenged'!!!
> Besides, the "metric
>time" alternatives aren't enough of an improvement to be worth the trouble
>of trying to implement them. -- Jason
>
? Again, I beg your pardon? By this rationale then why should we abandon the 12-3-1760 ifp construct??? Alas, this is basically the same logic behind defending this hideous 60-60-24 construct, just the numbers are different! Or are you saying that as long as "conversion factors" are "friendly" numbers that it would be ok to forget about decimalization? I sincerely hope not!
But it would suffice for one to start using a truly decimal time construct (ANY construct) to see how many benefits it would emerge from its use! Just like mm, cm, m, km etc are a huge improvement over in, ft, yd and mile.
I've been experimenting with my percentime "watch", for example, and I must confess, I LOVE IT! No more navigating from stupid minutes to hours and back... What a breeze! And associating and getting familiar with percentime chunks of time throughout the day is another refreshing and quite easy experience!
My next move will be to get Swatch to perhaps offer me a variation of their "beat" watch for me (all they'd have to do is move a decimal point in my case. This should be an extremely easy and simple thing for their engineers to do for me! ;-) ).
Marcus
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bill Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 3:07 PM
>Subject: [USMA:25332] RE: Battlestar Galactica (Re: metric clocks)
>
>
>> 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, 5s 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
>>
>
>
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