Oh, am I glad John wrote this post! Way to go, John! He DOES have a very valid point! Perhaps now people will start paying more attention to the *academic* aspect of the SI system when it comes to USING it in practice. (I know, I know, many here will probably say: but hour/minutes etc are NOT SI. Yes, true, but WE ALL KEEP USING these things!!! And why? Again, I'll leave that up to you, guys, to conclude...)
Bottom line is, until we fix the time framework this oddity will continue to exist for generations to come. Solution? I'm afraid people may now realize what that is... so I'll leave that up to them to draw their own conclusions, otherwise I'm afraid I'll get flamed again for stating it once again... ;-) Thanks, once again, John. Very well put!!! Marcus --- John Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, why do metric road signs say, "Speed Limit 100 > km/h"? Is this metric, > or not? Why are not speeds expressed in seconds, or > kiloseconds? The same > speed could be written (approximately) as 28 km/ks. > If we are going to > promote the metric system, i.e. SI, and the hour is > not part of SI, then > shouldn't speed limits be defined in meters per > second or some such? > > In fact, it seems that just about anywhere SI is > used, whenever times are > expressed, such as for radioisotope half-lives, > instead of kiloseconds, > megaseconds, gigaseconds, etc., minutes, hours, > days, years, etc., are used. > > What's the difference between using hours and using > miles or pounds? > > John Hynes > > --- Bill Hooper wrote: > > The problem seems to be decimalization of the way > we measure time of > > day (in minutes and hours). Change the minutes and > hours if you wish > > (they are not part of SI anyway), but leave the > second (and the metre) > > alone. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
