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

[Sleeman Ken]

I'm all for everything metric. I was very disappointed when President
Carter's initiative to go metric back in the 70s failed. I use metric
every chance I can.
 
Making time 10 based makes all the sense in the world. Changing the
calendar to 10 months of approximately 36.5 days each also makes sense
to me.
 
Ken Sleeman CSRE, CBNT 
Broadcast Engineer 
Arbitron, Inc. 
9705 Patuxent Woods Drive 
Columbia, MD 21046 
ken.sleeman at arbitron.com 
410-312-8747 


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



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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