Re: Metric

Kevin Williams <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Underpants Gnomes tell me that 
>  Matt Sicker <boards@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Flash Gordon wrote:
> >> Also very few people use a metric time system ;-)
> >
> > You mean like kiloseconds?  I remember reading a good SF book
(Accelerando
> > by Charles Stross) that measured time like that.  It actually makes
sense.

>   He does that in at least one other book, too, reasoning that with 
> people living in other solar systems and/or inside computers it's easier

> to just have one time unit.  I'm pretty sure his second matches ours.

He does it in both _Singularity_Sky_ and _Iron_Sunrise_ IIRC. Both of
these, BTW, I recommend highly.

Anybody read _Glasshouse_ yet?

>   Niven's (or Pournelle's) approach is to use a standard hour on 
> star****ps but no days, etc.  Presumably the hour has 60 minutes of 60 
> seconds, but I don't recall if that was explicitly stated.

I don't think that they ever explicitly state it.

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