Of course, they should simply have called it "Decimal Time." It is certainly that, even though it bears no relationship to SI and is worse than useless. As we've discussed here before, many of the old card-stamping time clocks (e.g., those produced by IBM's old Time Division) used real hours and hundredths of hours, which was not a bad scheme for tracking the time of people who were paid by the hour. It certainly made pay calculation easy in the days when computers were rare. Bill
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:50 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:39142] RE: Metric Time Regarding the article (and widger) for metric time On 2007 Jul 21 , at 8:53 PM, Bill Potts wrote: You don't say who the addressee is for that letter, Bill, although I assume it was someone at Apple Computer. No, not from Apple. It was from a company that produced this widget (small program). The address of the company was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information about what the company does, there web site URL is: http://www.madsense.net/waygrander/ Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== SImplification Begins With SI. ==========================
