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Posted by HeyBub on October 11, 2009, 2:33 pm
stan wrote:
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> OK time to float my crazy idea!
> We should have one world wide time system.
> So zero hours in say New York (or Zurich, Moscow, London etc.) would
> also be zero hours 'everywhere' in the world.
> Much simpler?
> Midnight in New York is presently 01.30h in the morning here on the
> east coast of Canada and 05.00h in London!
> So what?
> With one World Time Zone, I'd soon get used to getting up when my
> clock read 05.30 instead of 07.00h, or having supper when the clock
> reads 16.30h instead of 6.00 PM!
> By the way it should be a 24 hour system not this weird 12 hour
> division!
> I notice that some people when travelling away from home will keep
> their watch on 'home time' so as to keep in touch with events they are
> used to. While the zone they may actually be in can be many hours
> ahead or behind!
> Living for while in the Middle East one was aware that early morning
> (6.00 AM) North American radio broadcasts available via the inter-net
> occurred at half past midday! Didn't matter what the clock said,
> that's when they were available!
> Flame away!
As long as you're intent on confusing everybody, why not switch over to
metric time as well? Ten metric hours in a day, ten metric minutes in an
hour and ten metric seconds in a minute.
Think how easy microwaves and VCRs would be to set.
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Posted by Percival P. Cassidy on October 11, 2009, 3:11 pm
HeyBub wrote:
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> As long as you're intent on confusing everybody, why not switch over to
> metric time as well? Ten metric hours in a day, ten metric minutes in an
> hour and ten metric seconds in a minute.
ISTR that _Electronics Australia_ (or maybe it was still _Radio, TV and
Hobbies_ at the time) once reported that on April 1 of that year
Australia would be changing to the new Metric Time standard. But I no
longer recall how things were to be divided up -- maybe even a 10-day week?
It must have been around the time that Australia was in the process of
-- by stages -- decimalizing everything else.
Perce
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Posted by Harry L on October 12, 2009, 3:37 pm
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:11:29 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
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>HeyBub wrote:
>> As long as you're intent on confusing everybody, why not switch over to
>> metric time as well? Ten metric hours in a day, ten metric minutes in an
>> hour and ten metric seconds in a minute.
>ISTR that _Electronics Australia_ (or maybe it was still _Radio, TV and
>Hobbies_ at the time) once reported that on April 1 of that year
>Australia would be changing to the new Metric Time standard. But I no
>longer recall how things were to be divided up -- maybe even a 10-day week?
>It must have been around the time that Australia was in the process of
>-- by stages -- decimalizing everything else.
>Perce
The metric unit of time is the second (the same one hypercomplicating
people use). No other units may be used, just metric prefixes.
some conversions:
1 Kilosecond (KS, 1*10^3) = 16.7 minutes
1 megasecond (MS, 1*10^6) = 11.5 days
1 gigasecond (GS, 1*10^9) = 31.5 years
1 terasecond (TS, 1*10^12) = 31.5 millennia
1 millennium = 31.5 GS
1 decade = 315.5 MS
1 year = 31.5 MS
1 month = 2.63 MS
1 week = 604.8 KS
1 day = 86.4 KS
1 hour = 3.6 KS
The author of this message is approximately 1.56 GS old.
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Posted by Red Green on October 11, 2009, 4:06 pm
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> stan wrote:
>> OK time to float my crazy idea!
>> We should have one world wide time system.
>> So zero hours in say New York (or Zurich, Moscow, London etc.) would
>> also be zero hours 'everywhere' in the world.
>> Much simpler?
>> Midnight in New York is presently 01.30h in the morning here on the
>> east coast of Canada and 05.00h in London!
>> So what?
>> With one World Time Zone, I'd soon get used to getting up when my
>> clock read 05.30 instead of 07.00h, or having supper when the clock
>> reads 16.30h instead of 6.00 PM!
>> By the way it should be a 24 hour system not this weird 12 hour
>> division!
>> I notice that some people when travelling away from home will keep
>> their watch on 'home time' so as to keep in touch with events they
>> are used to. While the zone they may actually be in can be many hours
>> ahead or behind!
>> Living for while in the Middle East one was aware that early morning
>> (6.00 AM) North American radio broadcasts available via the inter-net
>> occurred at half past midday! Didn't matter what the clock said,
>> that's when they were available!
>> Flame away!
>
> As long as you're intent on confusing everybody, why not switch over
> to metric time as well? Ten metric hours in a day, ten metric minutes
> in an hour and ten metric seconds in a minute.
>
> Think how easy microwaves and VCRs would be to set.
Would the box weight then be in metric tons?
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Posted by Ed Pawlowski on October 11, 2009, 2:11 pm
>>Well, yeah, I do understand that one person can't unilaterally change
>>the hours his employer is open. But that puts the onus on the employers,
>>schools, whatever. Change the schedules to start earlier when dawn comes
>>earlier, so your employees can have evening daylight to do whatever.
Well I can and did just that, but it has a downside. Used to be, I'd get up
at six, my wife got up at 6:30 and breakfast was ready when I got out of the
shower. We'd watch the news and 20 minutes of the Today show and I'd leave
for work. I decided to go in an hour earlier to be home an hour earlier.
So, what is the downside? My wife no longer gets up to make me breakfast.
Too early for her.
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> We should have one world wide time system.
> So zero hours in say New York (or Zurich, Moscow, London etc.) would
> also be zero hours 'everywhere' in the world.
> Much simpler?
> Midnight in New York is presently 01.30h in the morning here on the
> east coast of Canada and 05.00h in London!
> So what?
> With one World Time Zone, I'd soon get used to getting up when my
> clock read 05.30 instead of 07.00h, or having supper when the clock
> reads 16.30h instead of 6.00 PM!
> By the way it should be a 24 hour system not this weird 12 hour
> division!
> I notice that some people when travelling away from home will keep
> their watch on 'home time' so as to keep in touch with events they are
> used to. While the zone they may actually be in can be many hours
> ahead or behind!
> Living for while in the Middle East one was aware that early morning
> (6.00 AM) North American radio broadcasts available via the inter-net
> occurred at half past midday! Didn't matter what the clock said,
> that's when they were available!
> Flame away!