In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Zefram scripsit: : : > (Having been born some 601.266 Ms after TAI's birth, I'll be celebrating : > my personal gigasecond in two weeks time. If anyone's keeping track, : > you can put me down as an early eschewer of solar time, for those things : > where I have the choice.) : : If you enjoy high-end science fiction, check out Joan Vinge's _Heaven : Chronicles_, which is set in an asteroid belt. All times are in kilosecs, : megasecs, and gigasecs.
Cool... A gigasecond is around 31 years, a megasecond is ~11 days and a kilosecond is about 17 minutes. How would you keep such divergent times strait? Let's meet for dinner in about 200 kiloseconds? Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs