Huh? You lost me, Brij. But that's OK; I'm not interested in pursuing this quest of yours to decimalize time. I'm still working on metricating the US.
Jim On Saturday 2004 January 03 02:59, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote: > Jim, sir: > 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! > ***** ***** ***** ***** .... -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
