Re: measuring time

I figured this would be the best place in the thread to post this, since
Tim mentioned the 24/60/60 time system...

Tim May wrote:
>
> Is there any particular reason not to take the obvious route, and
> divide the day by numbers other than 24 / 60 / 60?
>
For Suvile, I didn't even change the numbers! They use a base-12/60
hybrid system for "scientific" calculations, so 24 and 60 make perfect
sense. Of course, Idzon is a different planet than Earth, and it rotates
once every 16 1/3 hours, instead of 24. So that made the local hour,
minute, and second all shorter.

I swear this part was completely unintended, and also unnoticed until I
started playing the guitar: the standard for Western music is the A
above middle C, which is 440 Hz (cycles per second). Since the Suvile
seconds are shorter than Earth's, the frequency is different. Earth's
440, when converted to local seconds, comes out to 299.444..., or *very*
close to the base-60-friendly _300_.

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Michael Potter
Idzon Conworld: http://www.potterpcs.net/idzon