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This was a very hard topic to write about, so any comments are greatfully recieved to improve on it.


Thanks,
Croz

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Hi,
This is a very interesting and well thought out article. It is concise and to the point, and wouldn't need (IMHO) any fiddling by the subs. Maybe you could include some examples of where UIT is actually used (if there are any!), but I think this stands without that.

Have you thought about writing a whole family of articles on timing systems (eg the 52/7/24/60/60 time we use - with the subsets such as Hebrew, Western, Chinese, etc and the old French Decimal Time - thankfully abandoned quite quickly). You could turn them into a University Of Life project.

Hope this is of some use to you!

- Adam

Off hand the only things that currently use UIT are Swatch watches, and a lot of freeware internet time converters.

Thanks for the idea about this article becoming one in a series of time related articles. At the moment I don't know much about the other time systems in use or have been in use, so I think a little bit of background reading may be in order.

Thanks once again
Croz

Yet another neat idea from the people who brought us digital watches...

I guess that this is most useful as a chronometric system for programmers and computers themselves, as 0-1000 is a far more straightforward decimal system than the current. Either that or it's a sneaky attempt by the Swiss to hijack the global meridian from Greenwich.

I thought that 0-1024 would be more easy for computers.

Shouldn't that be '10000000000' binary-style?

My head hurts

*wishes he'd paid more attention in maths at school*

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