(Where I live, many people no longer use clocks with faces at all; many clocks have digital displays.)Yes, there are watches since people who own such watches have sharper 'mental agility'. My humbel suggestion for them: just imagine the minute hand showing at position little after 5 O'clock, both hande riding over eachother - say 17:27 PM. This shall be 17:45(decimal) PM.
It is as simple as this mental multiplication by (5/3) to decimla minutes after the HOUR.
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20040218/13:24(decimal) PM(IST)
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
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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!
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From: Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [USMA:28741] On New Time Unit Re: The SI system construct Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:41:21 -0500
You wrote:*easiest, surest and cheapest* proposal meet the situation without changing the BASIC face of clock ...
... 'Decimal seconds' defined as:
DEFINITION
"ONE DECIMAL SECOND (sd) is the time interval between any TWO events that take place
during the fraction 1/240000th of the atomic day (of 86,400 atomic seconds) and correspond
I see no reason for the drastic change required changing the definition of the second to preserve something as unimportant as the basic face of a clock. (Where I live, many people no longer use clocks with faces at all; many clocks have digital displays.)
Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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