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

[Bill Barber]

I had hoped that we would outlaw the metric system after that space 
accident on Mars!  wb

Bill Barber
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On 3/26/2009 1:05 PM, Edwin Bukont wrote:

> Folks who insist on metric divisions are what is bi-polar!!  While 

> metric fits a sort of feel-good niceness, it is not necessarily more 

> accurate.  Look at celsius.  while 0 and 100 are convenient, a sort of 

> scientific 'politically correct' gradients for water's state, the fact 

> is that deg-F is nearly twice as accurate because it has more 

> divisions than deg-C for going from frozen to boiling.  metric may be 

> easier to teach or understand, but that does not make it more accurate.

>

> Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT

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> From: A9xw at cs.com

> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:33:46 -0400

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

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> As with most absolute values, time zero can only be approxximated by 

> infinite division my 2. and then agreeing that the last division is 

> indivisible. The zero value is approachable but not achieveable. Much 

> like trying to find a magnetic monopole by dividing a magnet by 2 an 

> infinite number of times. The monopole has never been found, even at 

> the smallest division the magnet is still bi-polar.

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> Henry

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