On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:31:19PM +0200, Dirk Joos wrote: > ...But in this simple case a > minute is always 60 seconds and an hour always 3600 seconds.
Totally off-topic, but this reminded me of a book I recently completed, "Martian Rainbow" by Robert L. Forward, which spelled out the details of a functional Martian calendar that both worked for laypeople and didn't upset the scientists too much: http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/other/forward.htm > Now comes the real difference. Instead of a maur being made of 60 minutes > of 60 seconds each for a total of 3600 seconds per hour, there are 60 > marmins (Martian minutes, of course) of either 61 or 62 seconds each > (remember a Martian second is identical to an Earth second). The shorter > marmins are the 00 and 01 marmins in each maur and every marmin divisible > by 3... When reading this book, for a brief minute I considered writing a DateTime extension to support this calendar (you know, "for fun")... and then realized that I was being insane. :) totally random and coincidental sig, BTW... -- "While her schoolmates were worrying about boys and hairstyles, she was reading science fiction and worrying about nuclear winter, ozone holes and resource depletion. Her teachers called it escapism." . . . . . Karen Etheridge, [email protected] GCS C+++$ USL+++$ P+++$ w--- M++ http://etheridge.ca/ PS++ PE-- b++ DI++++ e++ h(-)
