Lets us talk about calendars.Yeah. Let's talk about calendars. Our measurement of time goes all the way back to Babylonia from what I understand. If I recall correctly, they had used base 60 as their numerical system. Of course this is off the top of my pointy head, so I could be wrong. :-)
Let's talk about some metric time. Personally, I like the martian time system.
- The International Meridian Conference Proceedings, Oct. 1884 - Resolution VII of the Final Act of these proceedings, which established the Greenich Prime Meridian, states:
"That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies designed to regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the division of angular space and of time shall be resumed, so as to permit he extension of this application to all cases in which it presents real advantages."
All parties to the conference voted in the affirmative on this resolution except Germany, Sweden, and Guatemala which abstained. - A New Time For Australia - Will Australia be the first country to switch to MT?
- Aristean Decimal Time - "New time system in decimal format covering the duration or elapsed time issue, and the clock time or time of day issue." Uses "aristo" for centidays and starts the day at sundown (18:00 ABT).
- The Decimal Time Society - With a decimalized date starting on the vernal equinox, AD 2000. Also a 10 day week. Also includes a poem.
- Global Standard Time (XTime) - Coordinated to the International Date Line.
- Grand Admiral Petry's Metric Time Page - "American Standard Metric Time: the HESIT ... Metric time divides the day into 40 demur(s) and centigrad hesit(s)".
- John Hynes' Decimal Time - Overview of decimalized time formats including (Modified|Truncated) Julian Dates, Unix, French Republic, Stardates, etc. with java clocks (digital and analog) illustrating them and a conversion table. Also links and a discussion board.
- Martian Time - Proposal for decimalized time system (and others) and calendar to be used by martian colonists. Will they beat the Aussies?
- Metric Time - Uses a 25h/100m/100s format plus has nonstandard years.
- Metric Time - This one uses a unit called a "tick" which is based on the solar year. It has a metric calendar too. It also has a links section which looks strangely familiar...
- RyoSystem - A replacement for a portion of the SI metric system that includes a decimilized time based on a centiday, here called a Choi (Ch).
- Universal Time Organization - "Promoting a metric based system that is co-ordinated on UTC".
- WRLD.time - IDL Coordinated, day divided into 100 measures of 100 beats. predecessor of GST.
- XAQ Metric Time (XMT) - Base unit is a Pulse (a mean solar day), also has a decimalized calandar system.
I keep a screen up with Mars (the planet) time on it (there is a reason, no, I won't explain), and my normal screens have either civlilian or military time.
Best I find some girls, a dwarf, a jello pool, and other assorted equipment and consumables and think about other things.
It's really best for humanity.
/johnny