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Subject: OT: "metric" time
From: Andreas Mayer <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:38:17 +0100


Am 15. Feb 2005 um 14:08 Uhr schrieb M. Uli Kusterer:

Just display seconds only and it is as metric as it can get. :-)
At 86,400 seconds per day???

Well, since the second is a SI base unit (*) and it will be difficult to change the time earth takes to turn around itself, I'm afraid we are stuck with that fact ...


Andreas

(*) http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html

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