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

[k7cr]

Gary - 

I can't fathom changing the number of days in a week...what irks me is that we use metric or base-10 time when we go beyond 1 second...ie, 10ths of a second (we do the same in looking at longitude and lattitude,but that's for another day).   Still like base 10 time - with the months left alone

Clay
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  From: Gary Stewart 
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  Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [SBE] Timekeeping Standard [was RE: UTC Time Standard]


  Changing hours, min. and seconds might work, but you can't mess with nature and human nature without consequences.  So, you are stuck with 365.25 day years and 7 day weeks. I think it was during the French revolution when they tried to go to a 10 day week. People couldn't physically function with it.

   

  Gary Stewart

   


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  From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Sleeman Ken
  Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:24 AM
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  Subject: Re: [SBE] Timekeeping Standard [was RE: UTC Time Standard]

   

  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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  From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Dan Mammone
  Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:14
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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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