RE: First angle and Third angle / metric clock
Posted by
Gail & Bryan Harries
on 2001-03-27 08:11:09 UTC
Matt,
I'm with you... sounds great, nice and simple...
So when do you start campaigning for this new "time" system???
Lets start building clocks and hit the market early... if nothing else it
would make a good project to burn up some of that new "Metric Time" :-)
Bryan
-------Original-------
Then why not change time? Aside from days and years, which are fixed by
astronomical time bases thus far outside our control, the current
divisions of time are arbitrarily Imperial. Since seconds are normally
divided in the metric manner (milliseconds, etc.), and periods of years
are usually gathered up in decimal groups (decades, centuries,
millennia...), why not establish a consistent metric version of the
clock! Currently there are 86,400 seconds in a day. If we shorten the
second up just a little we can squeeze a nice round 100,000 of them in a
day (I'd wait on that oscilloscope purchase until the new metric models
come out...). Minutes will be replaced by millidays which have 100
metric seconds in them (it'll be about 1 minute, 26-3/8 seconds in the
old Imperial time). Other divisions will be the centiday (14 minutes, 24
seconds Imperial), and the deciday (144 minutes Imperial). Clocks will
be simplified considerably. The face will be divided into 10 major
numbered divisions with 10 smaller tick marks in between. The little
hand will rotate once a day, the big hand will go around 10 times, and
chronophiles will demand a second hand as well. I'm no horologist, but
the gear train has got to be simpler and there'll be no need for AM/PM
indicators!
Now, about that calendar...
Matt
I'm with you... sounds great, nice and simple...
So when do you start campaigning for this new "time" system???
Lets start building clocks and hit the market early... if nothing else it
would make a good project to burn up some of that new "Metric Time" :-)
Bryan
-------Original-------
Then why not change time? Aside from days and years, which are fixed by
astronomical time bases thus far outside our control, the current
divisions of time are arbitrarily Imperial. Since seconds are normally
divided in the metric manner (milliseconds, etc.), and periods of years
are usually gathered up in decimal groups (decades, centuries,
millennia...), why not establish a consistent metric version of the
clock! Currently there are 86,400 seconds in a day. If we shorten the
second up just a little we can squeeze a nice round 100,000 of them in a
day (I'd wait on that oscilloscope purchase until the new metric models
come out...). Minutes will be replaced by millidays which have 100
metric seconds in them (it'll be about 1 minute, 26-3/8 seconds in the
old Imperial time). Other divisions will be the centiday (14 minutes, 24
seconds Imperial), and the deciday (144 minutes Imperial). Clocks will
be simplified considerably. The face will be divided into 10 major
numbered divisions with 10 smaller tick marks in between. The little
hand will rotate once a day, the big hand will go around 10 times, and
chronophiles will demand a second hand as well. I'm no horologist, but
the gear train has got to be simpler and there'll be no need for AM/PM
indicators!
Now, about that calendar...
Matt