[SBE] Timekeeping Standard [was RE: UTC Time Standard]

[Dan Mammone]

That's still an "English" approach. If we really wanted to create a new
standard for timekeeping, we should steer away from the multiple units of
time and go to a single unit. such as year (ensuring that our current leap
year thing will be factored in). Then, make it "Metric", where we use the
respective prefix or suffix. Something like a Centon as heard in the
original Battlestar Gallactica series, or more like a Stardate of Star Trek.

 

Dan Mammone CBRE, CBNT

Broadcast Engineer

WMCO-FM/MCTV6

Muskingum College

 

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For that matter - Why not go all the way and change our time keeping to
base-10?.   Look what happens today - We have Hours, Minutes, Seconds ...and
what happens beyond that - We shift from base 12 to base 10 with 10th's of a
second.   Lets not just consider using UTC, but changing UTC to base-10.
For example - 

 

Midnight would be 0.000 hours

0600 would be 2.5

1200 would be 5.0

1800 would be 7.5

2400 would be 10, or 0.000 depending on how you wanted to look at it.

 

Each day would have 10 hours

Each hour would have 10 minutes 

etc.

 

Wait a minute ...It's not quite April yet.

 

Clay Freinwald

 

 

 

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