Re: [LEAPSECS] What timekeeping system should the Terra Nova settlers use?

2011-10-05 Thread Tony Finch
Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote: Another way is to have TAI hours and minutes and seconds, with each day ending with a partial hour. Digital time displays would have no problem with this, calculators can be used if you actually need to work out how long an interval stretching over

Re: [LEAPSECS] What timekeeping system should the Terra Nova settlers use?

2011-10-05 Thread Clive D.W. Feather
Tony Finch said: Another way is to have TAI hours and minutes and seconds, with each day ending with a partial hour. This is the arrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. And the Honor Harrington books, which is where I got it from. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to