... There's actually only one very long shelf. On second thought, ISO 8601 mentions at least two: one for UTC and one for UT1. The leap seconds (and days?) are...
Y'know, if you're going to maintain that leap seconds are not part of any hour or minute, than you might as well claim that the leap day is not part of...
Actually, I was not actually saying that the digit-pairs 00-59 are a series of numerals, themselves, nor that it's fully base-60, but that our system of time...
... Originally, "you" WAS plural; "thou" was the singular form of the 2nd person. During the Middle Ages it seems that European languages developed familiar...
nilamber biswal <nilamberbiswal@...> wrote: Analysis on Time-Line Axiom: Draw the number line & symbolise the intervals as follows - ... [0,1] = 0 ,...
... No, they are not. This makes no sense. Minus five years before Christ would be five years AFTER Christ! BC/BCE is a retrograde count, which means that...
... I was just looking again at the W3C dateTime definition and noticed: "... '0000' will be the lexical representation of 1 BCE (which is a leap year) ..." So...
... base 60 ... joints equals ... fingers on the ... joints were ... number of ... determined a ... sunset and two ... allowed they ... hours, hence ... ...
... of ... is ... Well, the great unwashed public (guppies) know and care about leap days, they're kinda hard to miss (the leap days, that is). Leap seconds...
... context ... After giving this question more thought... "Radix" seems to be the more technical term, so I would assume anyone using it must know what he's...
... of ,sss is ... that .hhh is base 24. Exactly what problem, if any, are you having? It seems I took off on the base/radix argument and ignored the real ...
... I as just reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_superbase " When writing a number one could insert spaces every third digit for improved readability...
... I was not aware of that term, but I think that sounds like a good description. Except that there are only 24 hours in a day, not 60. (Plus, traditionally...
... They are used, but I would not say that they are "commonly used". I don't think that fractional days are necessary, unless you want astronomers to use the...
... Neither was I. The superbase of hours would be 24, in ISO 8601 only 24- hour time is allowed. It still remains that you have a variety of superbases with...
... Oh, come on, you know those won't exist in the 24th century. [In fact the only reason Geordie needs to work is because he bought shares of Microsoft when...
... CE/BCE was not coined for modern conceptions of political correctness. The terms "Common Era" and "Christian Era" have long been used as synonyms for Anno...
... If you already "know" it, the footnotes to section 4.3.2.1 (2000 draft) somewhat cover it. More explicit is Jean Meeus, "Astronomical Algorithms," 2nd ed.,...
... draft) ... That deals with AD/BC rather than CE/BCE. Perhaps ISO isn't clear on CE/BCE either. ... page 60. Oh, yeah, just hold it up to your webcam. ...
I'm more a fan of Douglas Adams, so: "Resistance is useless!" ... LaForge ... I really thought someone would point out that "two groups of Borg" is an...
... 1 [BC] ... ISO 8601:2000 s4.3.2.1 NOTE 2: "...note that the year numbers of years before the calendar year [0001] differ from the year numbers in the...
... CE/BCE is merely a synonym for AD/BC. There is neither BC nor BCE in astronomical numbering, only AD, which is the same as CE, so there is no need to even...
Perhaps I misunderstood you. I fully agree there is no 0 AD Astronomical or ISO 0002 = 2 AD Astronomical or ISO 0001 = 1 AD Astronomical or ISO 0000 = 1 BC ...
... Not really. Although they share a collective consciousness, or whatever, they are made up of individual units, which are organized into adjuncts,...
In a message dated 10/2/2006 1:25:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ... of ,sss is ... that .hhh is base 24. Exactly what problem, if any, are you having? As I...
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