John Hynes, all:
I had some exchange of my contributions, since 1970's promoting such ideas:
"Indias First Metric Watch:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/calendar.creations/galleries/Gallery3/g3/India's%20First.htm
PATENT  Government of India PATENT OFFICE; Patent # 138508/72 dated
27 December 1972
(Government of India, Patent Office release No. A 007625 dated 25 September
1976).
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS:
DECIMAL SYSTEM OF CALENDAR
Lok Sabha Question # 8100; Answered by Shri Jagjivan Ram (Minister of
Defence, Government
of India); 1974 April 25
METRIC CLOCK/CALENDAR DEVISED BY IAF ENGINEER
Parliamentary Question # 10066; Directed to The Prime Minister of India;
Answered by Shri Shivraj Patil; Minister of State for Science & Technology;
1983 May 04"
It is unfortunate I did not venture into production of 'such timers' being a
member of India's armed services; and lack of funds needed. Please see my
Home Page: http://www.brijvij.com/
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Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: "John Hynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:39157] Re: Metric clock
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:31:51 -0700
Here is the latest incarnation.
With respect, it's hardly the latest, since I first saw that page a couple
of years ago. I have seen other examples of "metric time" since then, but
have not thought them worthy of mention here. For instance, some fellow in
Iceland created a Decimal Time Project at http://dada.is/DTP/ , which
counts the days since the metric decree of April 7, 1795, similar to Julian
Day numbers, and defines a unit named Dies as equal to one day, with metric
prefixes, e.g. KiloDies, HectoDies, DekaDies, deciDies, centiDies,
milliDies and microDies. This, at least, is more "metric" than most
so-called "metric time" proposals. However, others have, over the years,
also proposed adding metric prefixes to the day unit.
Of course, "metric clocks" which divide the day into ten "hours", hours
into one hundred "minutes", etc., are usually recreating French
revolutionary decimal time. This was never a part of the metric system,
but was introduced at about the same time. The 1795 decree, which defined
the units metre, are, stere, litre and gramme, and the metric prefixes, did
not include a unit for time, and ironically suspended the mandatory use of
decimal time, which had been enacted nearly two years before.
About a century later, the French, through an official committee headed by
Henri Poincaré, again attempted to decimalize civil time and proposed the
standard hour as the metric unit, but it also did not get very far. By
this time, scientists were already using the second as part of the metric
system.
--
John Hynes
San Francisco
www.decimaltime.org
Quartidi 4 Thermidor, an CCXV à 5 hd 28 (temps moyen de Paris)
----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin
Sent: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:05:46 -0700
Subject: [USMA:39120] Metric clock
Dear All,
The idea of decimal time constantly re-occurs. Here is the latest
incarnation.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/metricclock.html
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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