[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammer report

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:34:20AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> Still, at least it's better than those that decide to develop a metric
> time system based around our existing definition of the second (yes, some
> people really are that dense!)

I don't think you can get out of 365.2498065^ days per year, but you can
divide the day how you want.  So, a number of years ago, I devised something
called "Widget Time" (Widget was a nick of mine in a past life) and it
basically treated the day like a floating point binary number of arbitrary
accuracy.  So, for example, we would have:

normal   widget
00:00  | 0
12:00  | 1
18:00  | 11
17:00  | 1011 0101 0101  (roughly 15sec accuracy)
17:30  | 1011 1010 1010  (roughly 15sec accuracy)

And you can also use hex for simplicity:

normal     widget                hex widget
00:00    | 0                   | 0
12:00    | 1                   | 8
18:00    | 11                  | C
17:00    | 1011 0101 0101 0101 | B555 (roughly second accuracy)
17:30    | 1011 1010 1010 1010 | BAAA (roughly second accuracy)
19:26:12 | 1100 1111 0101 0011 | CF53 (roughly second accuracy)

How's that for an otherwise wasted afternoon back in 1995^^?

Pete

^ I don't have a reference handy, but it was something like that IIRC.  I
guess I could work it out from the way the Gregorian calendar works, but
it's Friday night and I'm heading out soon... :)

^^ Don't get me started on years.

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