T.O.O. of your letter in decimalised HOURS *10:43:50 PM* could be easily read and understood as 22:73:05 PM [(43+50/60)*5/3]. AM/PM situation is easy to reconcile when *time reference is taken with CLEAR understanding of 'date line & Greenwich time'. Date change at date line is NOON at Greenwich.
Multiplication by 5/3 at any position of the minute hand after the HOUR directly give *decimal minutes after the HOUR*. And each DEGREE longititudnal transit of SUN across any meridian can be taken as 6-2/3 decimal minute (instead of the presnt four(4).
360 x 4 : 360 x 20/3 :: 1440 : 2400
This provide the 'easiest, surest & cheapest' method to change to METRICATION, when 1/100th of arc-angle is linked to Nautical kilometre or METRE New (m') defined to be 1/10^5th of ONE degree. Circumference of Earth would then be 36000 km'.
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040103/13:50 (decimal) PM(IST)
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: James Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:28119] Re: Time Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:43:50 -0500
Ironically, the 24-hour clock seems to have originated with astronomers, whose
work helped devise the metric system. (Delembre and Mechain were astronomers
and they used celestial navigation throughout their famous survey of the
Dunkirk/Barcelona meridian.) As I recall reading, the adoption of this system
by military forces in various countries of the world did not happen until
roughly a century later, but the name "military time" has stuck. I think that
there were more civilians who first ran across the 24-hour clock in the
course of fulfilling military duties than there were who put in a few years
of work in observatories and that this led to the false accusation.
Of course the joke has turned. The astronomers started their day at noon (some
still record date and time that way) rather than midnight and, in my
experience, American astronomers are the least likely physicists to use the
SI, prefering instead old cgs units when necessary but arcane units whenever
possible. Those who were first became last, which almost sounds biblical
somehow.
Jim
On Friday 2004 January 02 16:39, john mercer wrote:
> Yesterday Doreen and i bought some gas for the car. She used are bank card
> when we got the receit the time was in 24 hour mode. I believe that most
> electronic cash registors give the times on receits in 24 hour time. Even
> on my cell bill when it shows the times of calls they are in 24 hour. In
> the states if you buy gas and use your bank card is the time on the receit
> in 12 or 24 hour? I would dare say that most people when they get a receit
> they don't even look at the time. I have known about 24 hour time since i
> was a child. My dad used to use it on our boat. Cheers.
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