On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:55:11 -0400, Steve Giannoni
<casagiannoni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>GMT is a step in the right direction, but I think they wanted a
>decimal based system, and get rid of the complication of hours,
>minutes, & seconds ....
The real problem is that many things are based on hours, minutes,
seconds. e.g. - kilowatt hours , watt = joule / second, etc., etc.,
etc. ....
>
>
>On Mon, 5 May 2008 17:40:54 -0700, "Jim Langston"
><tazmaster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Steve Giannoni wrote:
>>> Yes, the Sun sets at a different Internet time in different places. So
>>> what ?! ...
>>>
>>> You might want the program as a matter of interest.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:44:31 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator
>>> <mensanator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On May 5, 4:22 pm, Steve Giannoni <casagiann...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> The Swatch Co.of Biel (Sp?) Switzerland has proposed a new time
>>>>> system where the day is divided into a thousand equal periods or
>>>>> "Beats".
>>>>
>>>> That'll fly.
>>>>
>>>>> The
>>>>> Internet time as defined by Swatch is the same everywhere, which in
>>>>> of itself is a GREAT leap forward.
>>>>
>>>> When you can make the sun set at the same time everywhere, then
>>>> you'll have something. What's the difference between saying
>>>> "there's a six hour local time difference between Chicago & London"
>>>> and saying "the sun sets at xxxx in London but at yyyy in Chicago"?
>>>>
>>>>> E-mail for a copy of my program for
>>>>> computing Internet time from your computer's time.
>>>>
>>>> Why the **** would I want that?
>>>>
>>>>> casagiann...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>And what's wrong with "0700 GMT"? Everyone uses GMT then it's the same
>>world wide. Just changing the name from GMT to Beats is just going to
make
>>things worst.
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