[ale] [OT] Date change proposal

[William Bagwell]

On Monday 11 August 2008, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> I had a few rambling thoughts along these lines a couple weeks ago.  I
> was thinking about metric time.  (Ducks!)
>
> The second being the base count, sorta like the meter or gram.
>  Starting at the beginning of the common era.  Anything before the
> common error would be a negative number.
>
> The new second should be based perhaps on how long the earth takes to
> go around the sun, then days can be based on that time divided by
> 365.5. (Hopefully not too many rounding errors).
>
> lets make some stuff up...
>
> 1 year = 31579200 (actual seconds in a year) not round enough, lets
> redefine to 32000000
> 1 Month = 3200000
> (only 10 months in my year  :-)  Sorry two of the -auarys, -bers, gots
> to go...
> 4 weeks in a month -
> 1 week = 800000 seconds
> Ad Nauseam...
> or...
>
> 1 day = 86400 seconds, lets round to 100000 new seconds
> 1 day = 100000 seconds (100 kilo seconds)
> 1 week = 700000 seconds (700 Kilo-Seconds)
> 1 month = 28000000 seconds (2.8 megaseconds)
> 1 year = 336000000 seconds (33.6 megaseconds)
>
> Needless to say trying to fit the lunar/solar cycles in some sort of
> metric based system that correlate well together is not an easy task,
> but anything worth having isn't.

I have a vague recollection of an Asimov essay about this. Ring any bells 
with anyone?
-- 
William