I am not against YOUR stopping the discussions on usma list. I can understand a non-willing *horse can be taken to pond but YOU DEFINITLY cannot make him drink*. So is the saying: if the pegion starts THINKING the cat does not exist - he has lived ENOUGH! At least, you agree that there is a need for correction to Gregorian calendar.
Now, on I shall reply only those mails; which I feel concern "SI-metric or calendar related". Wishing you all prosperity in the New Year 2003. Perhaps, the subject title, could have been *lost word (I hope) on Decimal Time! Cheers.
Brij B. Vij<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:23194] Last Word (I hope) on Decimal Time
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:36:20 -0800
Better still, let's just accept that, apart from calendar and timetable
purposes, time already IS decimalized -- using the base unit, s, with
appropriate prefixes.
On the small-scale side, we have milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds,
picoseconds, etc. Anyone with a computer is, or should be, familiar with the
first three.
On the macro side, we have megaseconds, gigaseconds, teraseconds, .... all
the way to petaseconds. (For time, the prefixes above peta aren't all that
useful.)
As hours, days and weeks are non-SI (although accepted for use with SI), and
as months and years are variable, I agree with Mike that we should simply
leave them out of our discussion. I also agree with him about what we're
stuck with.
Again, the calendar simplifications we've discussed (including the 30, 30,
31 + World Day + Leap Day version that Joe Reid and I would favor) are
interesting, but also outside the scope of SI, both now and in the future.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On
>Behalf Of Mike Joy
>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 16:22
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:23193] Re: Drudge 24 h format
>
>
>Marcus and Brij,
>
>You guys can forget about metricating time - we are stuck with the 24hr
>format. We have a hard enough job converting the US with the accepted units
>in the SI system without complicating things by adding Time to it.
>
>Of course, by rights Time should be decimalised, and they tried to do that
>in France when the metric system was first drawn up but IT WAS TOO
>DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT.
>
>So let's drop the subject from our list and create a separate list just for
>that subject if you want to push metric time. Don't use this one.
>
>Mike Joy
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