[lug] Fwd: Pi Day is coming

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

David,

The French Revolution implemented your suggestions.  No, not just the ones
about beheading, the other ones,
too.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Decimal_time>

FWIW, today is the 5th of Ventose.


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:54 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> Did you mean to say that time is all powers of 60? You probably didn't,
> but I'll take this thin excuse to rant... It's decimal fractions of a
> second, then 60 seconds, then 60 minutes, then 24 hours, then 7 or 30'ish
> days or 365.25 something days depending on which mutually incompatible
> next-larger-unit you're moving to.
>
> The ratio of days to years probably can't be changed without damaging the
> climate, but the rest certainly could.
>
> Oh, and we could just stop it with the fakey time more than half the year,
> too.
>
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> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > <snip> or *all* power of 60 (like we do with time for the
> > very reason you mention), or whatever. Instead no, sometimes is power
> > of two, sometimes is 60, sometimes is 12 or whatnots. There is so
> > much<snip>
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