--- Tony Eros <tony.eros_at_machm.org> wrote:
> Yeah, let's get rid of all those stupid non-metric
> measurements. Especially those pesky units of time. I mean, what idiot
> came up with "seconds", "minutes" and "hours", anyway? The "hours" even
> repeat twice every "day" -- how stupid is that!
Hopefully this is meant humorously. The second _is_ a metric unit
of time, even though minutes/hours/etc are not reckoned in decimal
intervals.
> Then again, maybe DEC had it right all along -- KiloCoreTicks forever!
I figured you'd be a fan of "micro fortnights" (1.6 sec, the rate at
which VMS asks you to enter a date and time at startup time if none
can be divined from the hardware)
-ethan
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Received on Mon Mar 05 2001 - 14:56:44 GMT