Re: Timekeeping

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> J.A. Mills wrote:
> > I beg to differ:  practicality is a suitable response for why such a system is
> > not being _used_, not why such a system doesn't _exist_.
>
> Ah!  Well, such systems *have* been proposed, but they've never been
> accepted.  So, they do exist, they're just not used.
Well, I try the following command ...
perl -e '$x = time; print $x, "\n"'
... and it says we are approximately 907 mega-seconds
into the unix era, which begins in 1970 AD.

With a little more effort, one could calculate
the phase of moon, season of year, day of week,
religious political and commercial holidays,
Arabic Hebrew Chinese etc equivalents, one's
personal bio-rhythms and fish feeding schedules.

Grand unified systems are chimerical and unnecessary;
computers were made to handle such translations.
But I really still like my idea of killing mondays.