B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for March 12, 2010

Those metrics don’t add up!

Good Morning, Lonewolf and LuvH8

HAVE NO FEAR, GROG IS HERE!!!

Grog no need go to rock - he make rock go to Grog. :)

MORNIN’, GROG! ‘BOUT TIME YOU CHANGED YOUR NAME TO FIT…

How fast was the rock running?

Time is an illusion, the rock is not.

Grog!!! Good Morning! Good Morning LoneWolfie!

I think he made up that answer. (They do conversions, but I am not going to figure it out. If interested google meter yard conversion.)

Top of the Mornin’ to you, Johanan Rakkav

In metric time there are 100 seconds to the minute. 100 minutes to the hour and 10 hours to the day. It’s way easier then the old base 12 system. (60,60,24)

GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME BACK, GROG!

I’m late! Good morning LuvH8, Woodeye, Pacejv &Johanan!

Is the meter running?

GO YARD! ! ! !

Yukoner said: “In metric time there are 100 seconds to the minute. ”

I have to assume you were joking, right?

Because, of course, there’s no metric system for time. Everyone uses the same 60-minutes-to-an-hour system, 24 hours a day. Which is, of course, the joke.

After the french revolution, they tried a metric time system. Didn’t last long. Search Decimal Time.

Speaking of time, we’re losing an hour this weekend… :(

But it stays lighter later in the evening, Tanya!

True, and I agree with that wholeheartedly… I’ll just miss that extra hour until fall… could use more time is all… lol

I prefer to weigh myself in kg.

I’m excited about daylight savings. I love when there’s more time in the evening to do things outside. :-)

Have a great day, all!

I like DST as well, It doesn’t bother me to go to work while it’s dark, and the extra hour of daylight when I get home allows me more time to do all the maintenance on my old cars that they need. My mother hated it though. She used to say the only people it helped were men who wanted to play golf after work.

I never noticed that strip across the top, with all the characters in it b4. Guess I’m not very observant lol

… looks kinda cool though

I like DST. I only wish they would run the clocks forward Friday afternoon at 4 instead of in the middle of Saturday/Sunday night.

IMO, one of the smartest decisions they made in Hong Kong a number of years ago was to abandon “Summer Time” (i.e. DLS Time) and go to GMT+8 year round. If a business wants to adjust its schedule at different times of the year, that is fine, but quit renaming the hours to what they are not. It doesn’t save anything and just disrupts people’s sleep patterns needlessly!

Hart or Mastroianni made up the metric/solar answer…

http://www.springfrog.com/converter/decimal-time.htm

Has a good explanation of why we use 60 min 24 hours

Saucy1121, as soon as my work day is done I will reset my watch. As soon as I get home, I will reset all my clocks that will not automatically reset on Sunday. I find that this makes the transition into the next work week a little easier.

DST is Sooooo LAST YEAR!!! Why not just keep the time at one or the other, and stop this stupid back-and-forth?

An old Indian saying said it best, “Leave to someone who thinks he’s smart to cut one end off a blanket and sew it to the other end, and think he has a longer blanket.”

I toned this down for public viewing…..

My sentiments exactly!

A solar year is an absolute, a lunar month is an absolute, and a day is an absolute (at least they’re near as dammit, none however matching up perfectly with another), but lunar years, calendar months, weeks, and hours/minutes/seconds are arbitrary. It’s convenient to have everybody use the same systems, and 24-hour days and 60-minute hours are nicely-sized, but if we had 20-hour days (10 hours each, AM and PM), 100 minute hours, and 5 day weeks (100 hrs) the differences would be slight. The big question is, would we work 3 days out of each week, or 4?

(In a fact-based work of historical fiction, I read that traditional Chinese geometry divided the circle into 365.25 degrees of arc, to correspond with the days of a solar year, but I haven’t been able to locate verification of this. This would be an inconvenient system, but not an arbitrary one.)

gocomicsmember said,

“IMO, one of the smartest decisions they made in Hong Kong a number of years ago was to abandon “Summer Time” (i.e. DLS Time) and go to GMT+8 year round. If a business wants to adjust its schedule at different times of the year, that is fine, but quit renaming the hours to what they are not. It doesn’t save anything and just disrupts people’s sleep patterns needlessly!”

I have to agree. All it does is just mess up my sleep patterns. Makes me wish I lived in Arizona (where they do not have it).

I wish they would leave the time thing alone altogether. Arizona has the right idea with that. All this moving back and forth screws with my parrots sleep patterns, which in turn messes with mine…leave it alone, it serves no purpose anymore anyway…I don’t know too many people that need DST to work on their farms, which is what it was intended for to begin with…stop it.

it is what it is

I find things work better when I use the digestive system.

Well said, Freeholder1.

Joe-Allen Doty, the question is:”Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of GOLD?”

Most poeple say “You can’t trick me. They’re the same weight.” But that is incorrect.

The correct answer (and it is a trick question) is that a pound of feathers is HEAVIER than a pound of gold. Gold (like other precious metals) is weighted in troy units, but feathers are weighed in avoirdopois units. A troy pound is 373 grams whereas an avoirdupois pound is 454 grams.

A troy OUNCE, on the other hand, is heavier than an avoirdupois ounce. So, an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers.

Isn’t our beloved “English” system of measurements wonderful?

My bathroom scale is calibrated in troy weight, because I’m worth my weight in gold and the Federal Reserve needs me to keep an accurate record.

Oh my gosh! MATH!! ILLOGIC!! EDGUMICATION!!

I’m for the metric system every inch of the way.