[LEAPSECS] What timekeeping system should the Terra Nova settlers use?

[Michael Sokolov]

Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:


> How would the people on this list who advocate for various treatments 

> of future timekeeping in our own world deal with that situation?  On 

> the one hand, it's of great importance to the settlers' lives that 

> they coordinate their time in some manner with the local solar time; 

> [...]

> On the other hand, I expect they have a good deal of gadgetry and 

> scientific instruments which probably have dependencies on 

> frequencies and interval timing that are based firmly on the SI 

> second.  So how would you reconcile this if you were the leader of 

> this colony?


Exactly the same as my proposal for today's world: maintain two
completely separate and independent kinds of time.

MS