Recently Pat Naughtin suggested:
1 milliday = 86.4 s 1 new minute a bit longer than an old
minute
1 centiday = 864 seconds about a quarter of an old hour
1 deciday = 8640 seconds a little under 2 1/2 hours
I can't help feel uncomfortable using the SI prefixes with non-SI units
(SI prefix milli with non-metric day to make milliday).
We may not be able to control what others do but I'm not sure those of
us who want to promote SI metric should encourage such bastardizing of
the prefixes.
Also, I would maintain that breaking the day into smaller units of
millidays, centidays and decidays, where each is an odd multiple of
seconds, is not much of an improvement over 24 hours, 60 minutes and 60
seconds.
However, I am happy to see that Pat agrees with the importance of not
changing the size of the SI second in any half baked effort to simplify
civil (daily) time. That would cause more problems than it would solve.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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