Phillips Hall & friends:
.....outweigh the advantages (think of the effect on climate).
Why have apprehensions that Earth is on a collision path - atleast among SI
enthusiasts.
Where is the problem, if a SOLUTION came up that *needs NO or minimal
changes*: IMAGINE:
(a) No change to Clock face; (b) No change to 24-hour clock work except
adding 100 graduations along with 60 to read Decimal Time after the HOUR;
(c) No change to 7-day Week calendar Pattern;
(d) No change to 90-degree quadrant or 360-degree circle i.e. 2 Pi Radians.
To achieve A WORLD CALENDAR, use is recommended for 364-day year by removing
a day from July (31)st and inserting THIS day gained as February (29)th.
Last Day is kept outside of the Year format and accounted as a World Day
(Leap Day inserted after June 30th & before July 1st) during Leap Years.
The extra duration of 1.242189669781 day can be accummulated and used as a
Leap Week once every six years, as per Leap Week schemes proposed by this
author.
Lunar calculations show advantage can be made of 19-year Metonic cycle
(5*47=235 lunation), along with 33-year solar cycle, as I have discussed
during my mails with
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> group.
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:35667] Re: decimal time
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:13:05 -0000
Decimal time will never be a practical proposition so long as the length of
the day and the year are regarded as natural cycles to which all
measurement of civil time must relate. You can't decimalise both the day
and the year together because you're stuck with 365.2422 days in a year.
Future generations that have the power to terraform planets might be able
to mess with the rate of spin but the dire consequences of doing that with
Earth will probably outweigh the advantages (think of the effect on
climate).
Decimalsation of other measurements have always been a practical
proposition with overwhelming advantages and since it has was started two
centuries ago with most of the world now using it, there is an compelling
case to finish the job.
Phil Hall
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:38 AM
Subject: [USMA:35663] decimal time
On 2006 Jan 14 , at 2:46 PM, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
We've talked about decimal time
here (a 10-hour day, etc.)
In SI, time is already decimal; it is measured in seconds,
kiloseconds, milliseconds, etc.
Civil time ("time of day") is measured in non-SI units that are so
thoroughly (but debatably) ingrained into society that even the
powers of SI have agreed that hours and minutes (and even days and
years) are acceptable "for use WITH the SI".
So, anyone who wishes to change the number of hours in a day, minutes
in an hour or seconds in a minute may do so as much as they please
without any effect on SI (PROVIDED that the size of the second is not
changed). If you like, go to it.
Any such plan has to recognize that there
are 86 400 seconds (or 86.4 ks) in a day and whatever scheme one
could devise must accommodate that fact. It is impractical in the
extreme to consider changing the length of the second, and it is
impossible (with foreseeable technology) to change the length of the
day (the rotation of the Earth).
It may be, that for measuring civil time, the minute and hour are no
worse than any other possible arrangement.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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