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

[Tony Finch]

Clive D.W. Feather <clive at davros.org> wrote:

>

> Another way is to have TAI hours and minutes and seconds, with each day

> ending with a partial hour. Digital time displays would have no problem

> with this, calculators can be used if you actually need to work out how

> long an interval stretching over midnight was, and analogue clocks and

> watches become intriguing gadgets (noting it's no more difficult than my

> radio-controlled clock that moves its hands around to correct the time, or

> my wristwatch whose analogue stopwatch winds back when I reset it or

> forwards when I end a pause).


This is the arrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

Tony.
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