Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

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In article <44pj6n$54b@minerva.worldbank.org>,
Robert McGee <rmcgee@worldbank.org> wrote:
>In article <44pfbl$qlc@news2.cts.com>, roosen@crash.cts.com (Robert Roosen) says:
>>
>>Great idea. In order to redefine the second, do you suggest changing the
>>speed of light on a regular basis, or going back to pendulum clocks as
>>standards and changing the gravitational constant ###
>>Robert the Second
>
>Why complicate things? Here, let me do it for you:
>
>I hereby define the second to be equal to the time it takes light to
>travel 94,608 km in a vacuum. There... that should do it.

And how do you define one km? The distance light travels in 1/94,608
seconds? <grin>

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