so nice to see so many folks chewing up and down the notion of decimal time. -- wow, what a comunity! please consider these two offerings:
http://sleepbot.com/WRLDtime a self-explanatory decimal time site with java-script downloadable decimal clockfaces for your desktop or website
and the soon to be online http://X-time.org a more complete decimal time system based in part on the original French Republican Metric time effort of the 1780's, but updated and upgraded into full SI compliance, and 100% backwards compatable with the decimal fraction of the Julian Date system used by astronomers for the last 150 years.
As such, X-time is a non-local time system where individual time-zones are transended (as is also the case with Swatch), but unlike the navel-gaze-ing Swatch marketeers who center their 'internet' time at their Swiss corporate headquarters, X-time equally de-centers all the world and by 'zero-ing out' at midnight on the international date line, displays the percentage of the world allready 'in tomorrow' or the more forward of the two dates simultaneously in effect. Rather than get bogged down in local time zones, X-time is a global time system designed to synchronise coordinated activities that span multiple timezones for those who wish to make a break from the imperial time standards of the former British naval empire. The 'zero moment' of the global day begins and ends at the cutting edge of the 'global now' -- midnight on the International Date Line East (IDLE time), this being concurrent with local London noon and the striking of Big Ben 12 times at mid day... (when the UK is not on daylight savings time!).
X-time is built upon the French Revolutionary metric second, 10^-5 of the mean solar day, which is 864 milliseconds long, and gives an ~ADAGIO-like~ tempo to the ticking of X-time -- roughly 70 chi per minute -- very close to the anglo/babilonian sexigesimal fraction of the minute we are more familiar with. This duration of only a little bit less than 1 second is called 'chi' (a hard 'k' sound with a long 'i' -- rhymes with pi, symbol 'x') after the first letter of the greek word 'chronos' meaning time. 1,000 x is equal to 1 kilo-chi (kx) which is 864 seconds in duration or 14.4 minutes (.24 hours) -- equal to exactly 1% of the mean solar day.
For all you Slashdot-sters (as well as the more advanced folks at NASA who can calculate the difference betweeen slugs and Newtons), the new X-time compliant unit of force is provisionally termed the Lagrange (after Joseph Lagrange, the mathmatical pioneer of 2 body orbital mechanics) and is defined as 1L= kg*m/x^2 This is roughly equal to ~1.34 Newtons or roughly ~6 footpounds. Anyone seriously interested in decimal time would do well to check out http://decimaltime.org There you can crawl and compare all the links to differing decimal time designs across the web and join in the threaded discussions on differing aspects of global decimal time design. And of course feel free to send me any comments of insites you wish to share.
I am looking for a group of beta testers willing to immerse in X-time, so don't be shy!
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so nice to see so many folks chewing up and down the notion of decimal time. -- wow, what a comunity! please consider these two offerings:
http://sleepbot.com/WRLDtime
a self-explanatory decimal time site with java-script downloadable decimal clockfaces for your desktop or website
and the soon to be online
http://X-time.org
a more complete decimal time system based in part on the original French Republican Metric time effort of the 1780's, but updated and upgraded into full SI compliance, and 100% backwards compatable with the decimal fraction of the Julian Date system used by astronomers for the last 150 years.
As such, X-time is a non-local time system where individual time-zones are transended (as is also the case with Swatch), but unlike the navel-gaze-ing Swatch marketeers who center their 'internet' time at their Swiss corporate headquarters, X-time equally de-centers all the world and by 'zero-ing out' at midnight on the international date line, displays the percentage of the world allready 'in tomorrow' or the more forward of the two dates simultaneously in effect. Rather than get bogged down in local time zones, X-time is a global time system designed to synchronise coordinated activities that span multiple timezones for those who wish to make a break from the imperial time standards of the former British naval empire. The 'zero moment' of the global day begins and ends at the cutting edge of the 'global now' -- midnight on the International Date Line East (IDLE time), this being concurrent with local London noon and the striking of Big Ben 12 times at mid day... (when the UK is not on daylight savings time!).
X-time is built upon the French Revolutionary metric second, 10^-5 of the mean solar day, which is 864 milliseconds long, and gives an ~ADAGIO-like~ tempo to the ticking of X-time -- roughly 70 chi per minute -- very close to the anglo/babilonian sexigesimal fraction of the minute we are more familiar with. This duration of only a little bit less than 1 second is called 'chi' (a hard 'k' sound with a long 'i' -- rhymes with pi, symbol 'x') after the first letter of the greek word 'chronos' meaning time. 1,000 x is equal to 1 kilo-chi (kx) which is 864 seconds in duration or 14.4 minutes (.24 hours) -- equal to exactly 1% of the mean solar day.
For all you Slashdot-sters (as well as the more advanced folks at NASA who can calculate the difference betweeen slugs and Newtons), the new X-time compliant unit of force is provisionally termed the Lagrange (after Joseph Lagrange, the mathmatical pioneer of 2 body orbital mechanics) and is defined as 1L= kg*m/x^2 This is roughly equal to ~1.34 Newtons or roughly ~6 footpounds. Anyone seriously interested in decimal time would do well to check out http://decimaltime.org There you can crawl and compare all the links to differing decimal time designs across the web and join in the threaded discussions on differing aspects of global decimal time design. And of course feel free to send me any comments of insites you wish to share.
I am looking for a group of beta testers willing to immerse in X-time, so don't be shy!