tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 14 17:56:52 1996
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Re: Stardates...
- From: Michiel Uitdehaag (Saito) <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Stardates...
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 11:00:38 +0900
>I read the page and have one question. Why do we use the time on this
>planet? It seems to me that we should have a system of telling time other
>than this planets rotation and it's orbital path around the sun. Doesn't
Because every human still lives on earth :)
No use adopting a different system if days remain 24 hours and years 356.25..
days.
> Why not start of with the turn of the century as the starting point and use
>a meteric system of some sort. For example, one day has ten hours, and each
>hour has ten minutes, and so forth. Wouldn't this give us a true nanosecond?
Eh? This is exactly the same system, only now hours last longer (as if they
didn't last long enough already :). It's still based on rotation of the earth,
because you still use days and years.
And what is a true nanosecond? You lost me here.
jej