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chrisim101010 (Voir le profil) 25 novembre 2010 00:19:21
I came across Esperanto about 5 months ago and have been learning it since. Recently, a thaught crossed my mind; how do esperanto groups organize time? Do you use Greenwich time, local time, or somthing completly different, such as metric time
Metric Time
I ask this because of a quick comment about Esperanto that was made by a radio commentator while introducing metric time
Metric Time Interview
ceigered (Voir le profil) 25 novembre 2010 10:47:16
(there's surely a good reason, especially tradition and customs based on 24 hours, in the business sector especially, but I still like the idea of having time in groups of 100). Pity the world doesn't circle the sun in 100 days... Otherwise we could have hrs (1% of a day), decahours (A week/month) and centiyears 
) chrisim101010 (Voir le profil) 25 novembre 2010 12:03:56
witeowl (Voir le profil) 25 novembre 2010 17:43:29
ceigered (Voir le profil) 26 novembre 2010 08:12:24
chrisim101010:Metric calendar, Hmmmm, there's an idea. I wonder if anybody has ever tried to design one of those.I can't remember any in particular but there are a multitude of excellent ideas for reforming our calendar system to something more logical, yet still natural (e.g. the year is still 365.25 days long).
It was certainly discussed on these fora, an idea about how one of those alternative calendar systems could really compliment the "neutrality" of something like EO. Wikipedia lists them as well.
FreeXenon (Voir le profil) 26 novembre 2010 15:48:23
I have scripts to convert to and from both. =)
ceigered (Voir le profil) 27 novembre 2010 03:54:45
FreeXenon:How about the International Fixed Calendar and a Decimal Time based off of Swatch's Internet time, but set from GMT as it should be.You bloody legend!
I have scripts to convert to and from both. =)
that's exactly what I was thinking of (well, the IFC, I'm not sure what the latter link is meant to be ).Only pity with the IFC is that, as listed on wikipedia, there may be some problems with religious calendars and paraskevidektriaphobia
chrisim101010 (Voir le profil) 27 novembre 2010 05:52:16
Is this word some curious combination of e-o and english? i assume it refers to those paranoid about 13 months in the calendar.
I might start telling people that Christmas is on December 23rd and laugh at the weird facial expressions that i receive when they ask "What?"
i went into digital time, and found someone had changed the week to 10 days and called it as follows
The NDSC days are named as follows:
0 = Yourday
1 = Myday
2 = Momday
3 = Dadday
4 = Poorday
5 = Giveday
6 = Getday
7 = Workday
8 = Loveday
9 = Restday
I love the idea
I think they mislabeled one day though
7 = Payday
This change should be a priority
ceigered (Voir le profil) 27 novembre 2010 12:22:18
RE paraskevidektriaphobia, my new favourite word
,See "phobia" section on the wiki article.
What'd be the Aussie pronunciation key for that?
'parəskevi:'dektri:a'fəʉbijə?
Well, if some can have Chinese/Russian/Whatever calendars that don't correlate to the international standard, I can't see why Christmas on teh 23rd would be so bad
. The problem is though that those who follow Chinese/Russian/Whatever calendars normally have a traditional reason to, where as I would be proud of any person who could keep track of a International Fixed Calendar given that there's no reason to remember it in current society. And I have trouble with remembering my own calendar as is! FreeXenon (Voir le profil) 27 novembre 2010 23:10:35
The other link - Internet/Swatch time is basically a metric time which looks kind of like this @315. It is never adjusted for daylight savings or Time Zones. The Time is the Time and that is it.
The Internet/Swatch time is based on Biel Mean Time instead of Greenwhich Mean Time, which is one of the main complaints against it when they put it forth in the '80's. My scripts correct this and have it based on GMT as it should be. The time as shown here has an example of decimal time. =)
ceigered:
You bloody legend!
Only pity with the IFC is that, as listed on wikipedia, there may be some problems with religious calendars and paraskevidektriaphobia