Blumf wrote:

>> 10 metric hours in a day
>> 100 metric minutes in a metric hour
>> 100 metric seconds in a metric minute


That would make a metric hour 2.4 ordinary hours long and so on down to
the seconds, which would seem to leave a second as too large a unit,
which would obviously need sub-dividing by either ten or one hundred.
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Two Ravens
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Hi

Two Ravens schrieb:
> That would make a metric hour 2.4 ordinary hours long and so on down to
> the seconds, which would seem to leave a second as too large a unit,
> which would obviously need sub-dividing by either ten or one hundred.

We now have 88400 sec/day and metrical 10*100*100=100000 sec/day
So a metrical second is shorter than our current second.

Juergen

Juergen Frieling wrote:

> We now have 88400 sec/day and metrical 10*100*100=100000 sec/day
> So a metrical second is shorter than our current second.

Metric hour = 144 old minutes
Metric minute = 1.44 old minutes
Metric Second = 0.0144?
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Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

If I recall correctly British summer time (BST) was the result of a
campaign by a Liberal (?) MP from Sussex (?), a busbody who inflicted
it on us, and now we've got BST linked to Europe. This all despite the
fact that time, all around the World, is counted from Greenwich and the
sun comes up in England later than it does in the rest of Europe.

If all these people want some alleged advantage from changing daylight
hours why the hell can't they just get up earlier, and leave the rest
of us, and the clocks, and reality, alone!

Grouchy old man's rant against progress, the EU, and other sundry things
ends.

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Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

Right I've found him it was William Willett of Chislehurst, an MP a man
who thought everybody should be up at the same time as he was. Just as
I thought an interfering busybody! See here for more details:
http://www.whitstablescene.co.uk/1916.htm


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Two Ravens
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Jim <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> I seem to recall that DST was started in WWII to save oil/fuel/etc.

Actually, in The Netherlands, DST was _abolished_ by the German occupiers,
we've had it from 1908 (or so) until 1941 (they also switched us to
the Middle European Timezone, which is where we still belong to).

PS: we _used_ to have Amsterdam Standard Time, which is about 20 minutes
later than GMT, with Daylight Saving, up to WW II
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Eef Hartman wrote:


> PS: we _used_ to have Amsterdam Standard Time, which is about 20
> minutes later than GMT, with Daylight Saving, up to WW II

Quite right too! Every where should have the time set so that 12.00 hrs
is when the sun is at its zenith over the Capital city! Unless of
course you happen to live in a Nation which covers such a huge area,
(or a whole continent), that it has to have time zones, (and even those
produce weird anomalies).
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"...hit the squirrel..."

Two Ravens wrote:

> Right I've found him it was William Willett of Chislehurst, an MP a man
> who thought everybody should be up at the same time as he was. Just as
> I thought an interfering busybody! See here for more details:
> http://www.whitstablescene.co.uk/1916.htm

Better than that, the stupid idiot wanted to put the clocks forwards 80
minutes! So not only would we have to mess about adjusting our clocks, we'd
have to keep out of hourly step with the rest of the world too, further
complicating life.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/willett.html

More proof for the 'people R dum' file.
$ echo "William Willett" >> idiots.log

Blumf

Hi,

Two Ravens schrieb:

> Metric hour = 144 old minutes
> Metric minute = 1.44 old minutes
> Metric Second = 0.0144?

Old Second = 0.016666 old minutes

Juergen

blumf@hot.mail.com wrote :

> More proof for the 'people R dum' file.
> $ echo "William Willett" >> idiots.log

Then put Benjamin Franklin on the list to. He introduced the idea in
1784 in a essay named "An Economical Project".
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Thomas O.

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