Metric stalwart that I am, I must be psychologically practical. I have romanced the idea of decimal time, but shiver at the prospect of having to revise even MY concept of time. In the United States today, we are having enough trouble just getting the International System of Units into our lives. Decimal time, I suspect, is a task for the 22nd century.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:49 AM Subject: [USMA:26309] Re: Systems of units, optimism vs. pessimism > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:19:21 > Joseph B. Reid wrote: > >... I suspect that our > >Babylonian hours, minutes and seconds were too well established > >around the world. Marcus must admit that the Babylonian units can be > >divided neatly in many more ways than can be a stricly decimal day. > >... > Dear Joe, > > I REALLY don't care if the 'Babylonian units' could be 'neatly divided', it's STILL the same ilch as 12-3-1760 thing for linear measurements of the "wonderful" ifp "system"!... > > Sorry, but NOTHING out of decimal would EVER satisfy me. Even though I know I may not be alive when I see this hideous 60-60-24 finally abandoned I *will* use percentime very soon exclusively in my life! ;-) > > Cheers, > > Marcus > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! > Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus >
