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

[Benedict, Raymond C]

Latitude and longitude can be expressed as decimal as well as HH MM SS. Like
38.23 and 077.11.


On 3/25/09 12:14 AM, "Clay Freinwald" <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:


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> 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

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>> From:  Gary Stewart <mailto:gstewart at ctvn.org>

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

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>> Changing hours, min.  and seconds might work, but you can¹t mess with nature

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>> From:  sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Sleeman

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

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>> 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

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>> Making time 10 based  makes all the sense in the world. Changing the calendar

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>> Ken  Sleeman CSRE, CBNT

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>> From:  sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Dan

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>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009  11:14

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

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>> That¹s still an  ³English² 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 unitŠ such as year (ensuring that our current leap

>> year thing will be  factored in). Then, make it ³Metric², where we use the

>> respective prefix or  suffixŠ Something like a Centon as heard in the

>> original Battlestar Gallactica  series, or more like a Stardate of Star Trek.

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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.

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