Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On 6/22/25 11:49 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-22, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

On 22/06/2025 07:14, rbowman wrote:
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:24:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:
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     Still wonder about the Babylonian base-60 thing ...

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Yeah, every time I have to convert degrees/minutes/seconds into something
I can work with. The jury is still out if that can be blamed on them or
not. The French tried to metrify that and more or less failed.

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Even Socialism cant make the year 1000 days long

 It can make it seem like it.
Of course, the same is true of any ideology taken to extremes...

   Actually, you COULD do 'decimal calendars'. Take
   a standard day, divide into 10 hours, months into
   10 days. By setting your reference to base-365.25
   it CAN work out pretty well.
   But yea, the universe rarely cooperates with 'logical'
   systems humans might try to devise. Remember the old
   Greeks and their obsession with 'perfect' circular
   motion in the cosmos ? The cosmos was supposed to
   be 'divine', and therefore only 'perfect' geometry
   would be seen.