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
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.
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Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to
The length of a Martian solar day is currently about 88775.24409 s (per
Wikipedia), yielding an average minute length for a UTC equivalent of
61.6494751 s. On Paleoterra you'll want an average minute length somewhere
between 58.0 s and 59.4 s. So on Mars you'll want about 65% of minutes
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
length of the day, but it was shorter than the current day, which
would, I imagine, have an impact on timekeeping in this colony.
The magnitude of this difference is in the same ballpark as the present
difference between Terran and Martian days, so exactly the same range
Sending this from the Super-80 on route to the Philadelphia UTC meeting.
On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:50 AM, Zefram wrote:
Lots of things I agree with. A couple of comments below.
Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
length of the day, but it was shorter than the current day, which would, I
imagine, have an
Rob Seaman wrote:
If not sexagesimal then what? Could humans actually use a decimal
counter productively?
The decimal day is quite practical. It doesn't catch on on Earth, of
course, because of the network effect favouring interoperability with the
existing sexegesimal division. On a new
On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
I'm taken by your mention of Hertz as the unit of TAI. That's an interesting
way to break the artificial symmetry between the two meanings of the word
second. Might be some play there. The unit of atomic time is frequency,
the unit of civil
On 2011 Oct 3, at 07:15, Rob Seaman wrote:
Sending this [...] on route to the Philadelphia UTC meeting.
ditto
the moon was absolutely colossal in the sky
They must have arrived in September and that was the harvest moon
One hopes that by year 2149 we'll have a good answer for the topic
of
How would the people on this list who advocate for various treatments of
future timekeeping in our own world deal with that situation?
Fun question. Thanks.
I'd setup two separate timekeeping systems.
For measuring time (and frequency) in scientific experiments, I'd use some
fixed unit and
On Oct 3, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
On Oct 3, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
I'm taken by your mention of Hertz as the unit of TAI. That's an
interesting way to break the artificial symmetry between the two meanings
of the
On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
For Electrical Engineering, nobody cares about earth angles, but they do care
that all seconds are the same length.
It depends what project the electrical engineers are working on. Astronomical
projects employ plenty of engineers.
The
I watched the premiere episode of Terra Nova, a new science fiction
TV series, last week. The premise is that people are escaping a
dystopian future (of the overpopulated, overpolluted, repressive sort
standard in sci-fi movies at least as far back as Soylent Green) by
going through a
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