Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:43:31 EDT, "J.A. Mills" <Xenolingua@...> =
wrote:

>And yet I still have the same question:  conservatism is a valid posit =
for why
>a "metric" time system is not in place; however, my question concerns =
why such
>a system doesn't even seem to exist.  This can't be a new idea--does =
anybody
>know of any reference works detailling such a system?  Should this =
become the
>next conlang group project?
Olaetyan has a decimal time system, and since its day is only slightly
longer than ours, it could easily be adapted. 100 "seconds" per "minute"
(0.864 seconds each), 100 "minutes" per "hour" (1.44 minutes each), 10
"hours" per day (2.4 hours each).

Time of day in Jarrda is defined by the rotation of the planet relative =
to
the sun, not in absolute time (no "leap seconds" necessary, and it adapts
without modification to other planets), although it's an octal system
instead of a decimal one.