I figure after TWO decades you could have figured that out by now. *wink*
At 23:54 2004-02-21, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
Brian and friends:Maybe later, but right now I'd be happy if everyone used 24 hour time and that was it.After TWO decdaes, I thought of SHELVING my 'Metric Second' and reconciled to leave intact:
* dividing the day into 10 or 20 hours with 100 x100 sub-units 'metric seconds';
*up or down count of the week into 5-day 'quinto day of a Million metic seconds' or 10-day Decaday for the format of Metric Calendar: thus retaining the 7-day 'sabbath';
* correspondingly NOT changing the 90-degree quadrant BUT 'decimalising the degree' to derieve the Nautical kilometre and DEFINE 'Metre as: 1/10^5th of the degree'.
If the need to reconstruct 'Metric Bible i.e. Le System Internationale d'Unites' is ripe, the *easiest, surest and cheapest' is to BRIDGE the 'time & arc-angle axis'. Thus, 24-hour clock needs NO CHANGE but the *HOUR & DEGREES are decimalised* to show their coherence!
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! ***** ***** ***** *****
From: Brian J White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:28798] Re: Metric time Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:48:08 -0800
Sorry Marcus, Helen, Carl and others who have spoken out are 100% correct.
The two issues are separate. "Metric" time is well...an almost useless endeavour at this point in time. Maybe later, but right now I'd be happy if everyone used 24 hour time and that was it.
Save the "metric" time for those mailing lists, or for people on that fringe that would like to change the time/calender method.
B
At 19:09 2004-02-19, Helen Bushnell wrote:Ma Be wrote:Marcus,
??? Wait a minute here, please, Carl. I think you're being somewhat too harsh and "forgetting" about something I consider as very important, critical even!
Fine, the SI system in its present form is "the way to go", but sure as hell it is NOT "the end of the line"! Curbing the efforts of those who are simply trying to get on with the natural course of mankind is uncalled for, and, quite frankly, the wrong attitude to cherish IMHO!
Marcus
Promoting metric in the US means promoting the system that is in use in the rest of the world. That is separate from changing the metric system or the system by which we tell time. Confusing the two means just makes efforts to convert the US will be less effective.
Helen
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