[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Time
Toby Smithe
toby.smithe at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 23:16:55 BST 2006
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:30 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 09/09/06, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's more a ratio than it is a decimal, though.
>
> It should be decimal. Stupid 60-worshipping ancient people...
Two points:
1. Why must it be base 10 to not be stupid?
2. It's not a decimal, and that's not going to change any time soon.
Under the International System of Units, the second is currently defined
as the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding
to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state
of the caesium-133 atom. This definition refers to a caesium atom at
rest at a temperature of 0 K. This will never change.
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