[LEAPSECS] Consensus building?

[Richard Langley]

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-- Richard Langley

On 3-Feb-11, at 1:50 PM, Michael Deckers wrote:


>

>   On 2011-02-03 14:00, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

>

>> Actually, Stephen is right and you're wrong. The BIPM defines an SI  

>> minute,

>> hour, and day in exactly this form. See table 6, page 32, of:

>> http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf

>

>   It may seem picky, but nevertheless: the BIPM does not define an

>   "SI minute" in the SI brochure, nor anywhere else. It defines

>   the time units minute, hour, and day in terms of SI units,

>   and allows their use together with SI units.

>

>   Thus d, h, min are are well-defined units, but they are not

>   SI units. Calling them "SI-minutes" etc is misleading, in my

>   opinion.

>

>   Michael Deckers.

>

>

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