Decimal time does make computation easier. So does decimal latitude and
longitude. Decimal L&L is becoming used more and more as it provides added
precision since it is based on 100 rather than on 60.
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Potts
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:36 PM
Subject: [USMA:39143] RE: Metric Time
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
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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
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