Re: When computer geeks start defining time
- From: Eric <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:14:21 -0800
Tim Killian wrote:
> Now that time standards are divorced from any events in the sky, here
> come the proposals to "rationalize" and/or metrify time units:
>
> http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
>
> A soulless system for a gray, soulless world.
yeh, dont feel bad, the french tried to do the same thing with computer
units with the creation of kibibits, mebibits etc which are utter nonsense.
Eric
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