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

[Jonathan Solomon]

Actually, I use 1/30 (or 29.97) of a second in our plant, not  
1/10ths... :)

On another note, if we went metric, would we have to change our frame  
rate?! :)

[For those that will reply that frame rate is based on power, not  
measurement system, I'm just kidding...]

Jon
W3EIC
On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:14 AM, k7cr wrote:


> 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

> ----- Original Message -----

> 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

>

> 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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> Cc: SBE EAS Remailer

> 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

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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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> Cc: 'SBE EAS Remailer'

> 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

>

> <snip>

> 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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