[LEAPSECS] What timekeeping system should the Terra Nova settlers use?

[Warner Losh]

On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:

> I'm taken by your mention of Hertz as the unit of TAI.  That's an interesting way to break the artificial symmetry between the two meanings of the word "second".  Might be some play there.  The unit of atomic time is frequency, the unit of civil time is angles, fractions of a day.  Retire the unit of the "second" entirely.


Wouldn't that be imperial ounces vs US ounces all over again?  It would also break the conversion from the frequency domain to the time domain and vice versa.  It is a quaint notion, but I don't think that dog would hunt.

Warner