I remember using a punch clock in a job I had back in the 1980's that decimal hours in which the hour was the ordinary length, but divided into 10ths.
I remind fans of decimal time that a suitable forum for discussing and metric time is available at my Yahoo Group page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Calendar-Reform/ . One need not be a member of my group to post messages, though they may have to be a Yahoo Groups member in general. I urge those favoring decimal to post messages on that web page. It is an easy matter for them to copy what they posted on the USMA listserver about decimal time onto my web page. They can post comments to my webpage by going to the webpage or simply by sending an email to the email address associated with the webpage, namely [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you post decimal time and calendar reform articles to the USMA server, simply send a carbon copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that it will also go to my webpage. Gavin Young http://www.xprt.net/~hightech , http://www.renewableelectricity.com, http://www.electric-automobile.com ------------------------------------------------ Quoting "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > USMA Digest 1559 > > From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/03/11 Thu PM 01:13:19 EST > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:29176] Re: Point-of-order on Decimal time > > Dear Bill, > > Another 'point-of-order'...: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:29:48 > Bill Potts wrote: > >Marcus Berger wrote: > >"Say a worker spent 1h25min on a job which pays him 8 $/h. How much money > >should he be paid for that amount of work?" > > > >That's easy -- $12. > > ??? Absolutely NOT!? I doubt any company would be sloppy to > that degree in considering 5 minutes "irrelevant"! Can you > imagine how much money that would cost the business if > extended to EVERY other worker??? Sorry, pal, but I can't quite > honestly agree with your "rounding" answer above. Back in the early 1980s, at one of the jobs I held, during high school, I recall that the punch clock system used by my employer, divided the hour into 100 equal parts. So, if you started work at 8:00 until 9:25, it would have been displayed your stop time as 9.42. Your work time would have been 1.42 and that would have been multiplied by your rate of pay to get your gross salary. Stephen
