Posted on 08/27/2019 2:41:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
some kind of base 10 metric system where 100 units equals 1 day.
What nonsense.
We already have perfectly functional time-keeping units - seconds, kiloseconds, megaseconds, etc.
I have that album in vinyl.
The article errs on what GMT time would NYC at 8am be. It says we would get used to rising at 3am. 8am in NYC would actually be 13:00 GMT or 1pm. 9 to 5 would be 14:00 to 22:00 GMT.
Meridians Are RACIST! or something...
Uh no, it won't. That is because sunrise is determined by the angle of inclination towards or away from the sun which varies depending upon the day of the year, which is why we have summers and winters.
The folks who gave us Muslim outreach and global warming & sea level rise?!
Something about a man changing the times comes to mind I rather recall. Sound familiar?
Yeah, I caught on to that eventually.
Not buying it.
It’s a stupid fix for something that isn’t broken.
The private sector isn’t in the Military. What makes sense for the military would be pure ignorance for us.
[It used to be that when idiots spoke, nobody listened. Now they not only listen, they promote the ideas.]
Oh, you’re talking about the Democrat Presidential Candidate debates of 2008, 2012, 2016 and for 2020.
Especially 2020 it seems.
Yes, them...
Yes, the rabid Leftists...
Yes, the environmentalists...
Yes, the population control freaks...
Yes, the vegan brigade
Yes, ANTIFA...
Yes, Soros...
...and on and on it goes
IT’S HOWDY DOODY TIME! Fool.
I was thinking if we could get Superman to spin around the earth at fantastic speed . . .
It’s a stupid fix for something that isn’t broken.
I was watching my daughter and her husband here in Louisville playing an online video game and talking to other team mates as they played. They were not even talking about the game. They were just chatting about stuff. I asked who they were talking to. It was one of my other daughters - who lives in Seattle. When the whole world uses one time, scheduling this sort of stuff is easy. I’ll see you at 16:00 means the exact same time, no matter where the talker and hearer are. And each will use their superior human brain to easily convert that time to what part of the solar day that is without even consciously thinking about it.
I think it’s a real winner. The more I think about it, the less downside I see, and the more upside I see as our planet becomes more globalized.
From the wikipedia entry:
Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat is equal to one decimal minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system and lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. Times are notated as a 3-digit number out of 1000 after midnight. So, for example @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight representing 248/1000 of a day, just over 5 hours and 57 minutes.
There are no time zones in Swatch Internet Time; instead, the new time scale of Biel Meantime (BMT) is used, based on Swatch's headquarters in Biel, Switzerland and equivalent to Central European Time, West Africa Time, and UTC+01. Unlike civil time in Switzerland and many other countries, Swatch Internet Time does not observe daylight saving time.
It's actually an interesting concept, but there is no way you'll ever get everyone on the planet to change from counting seconds, to '.beats'.
Personally, I think their idea isn't entirely bad. The biggest problem is the number of things that also would have to change if we got rid of what is today standard time keeping, and changed units of measure completely. The number of things that you'd have to recalculate and relabel is astounding. How many meters per .beat is 20mph?
Or a computer scientist who is sick of converting timestamps between timezones.
Since Johns Hopkins died in 1873, I imagine he is in a land with no time zones so it probably works great for him.
They’ve got it all wrong - it’s our base 10 number system that is the problem. What’s needed is a conversion of all counting to base 60, up to 3600, and then base 24 up to 86400. If they were at all rational, they’d be proposing what base to go to after 86400 is reached.
The 60 symbols for counting, and they’re spoken counterparts, would be so much fun to learn for preschoolers!
My solution to that is to set the TZ to GMT on all of the computers I support. All logs match up. Makes it easier to correlate incidents across distance.
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