| Metric SI, System International, still had old-English time, despite establishing the scheme and schema for Metricization |
ABSTRACT:
Standard Metric time divides the day into 40 demurs and centigrad hesits.
BACKGROUND:
The old-English system of measure with its expediency of units, inches, feet, yards, rods, furlongs, miles (land, nautical), fathoms, knots, hours, degrees, minutes, seconds (angular, time), gills, gallons, pints, barrels, pecks, bushels, ounces (troy, avdp.), pounds, tons,... and irregular factors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6, 12, 16, 24, 40, 60, 220, 2000, 2025, 6076 (2, 7, 31),..., used mostly in America, was parried centuries ago by the French Métrique Système International, which proffered regularized decimalized, meters, grads, liters,- with prefixes for factors by convenient powers of 10, deca, deci, hecta, centi, kilo, milli, mega, micro, giga, nano, tera, pico, peta, femto, * etc; weights by their water-mass-equivalent grams and tonnes; force, energy, momentum, in terms of the other units; temperature degrees Fahrenheit and (absolute) Rankine, by Centigrade now Celsius, and Kelvin (used most originally in electrophysics).
* (Poorly matched nomenclature, many already in-language: cf K, kilo, G, grand, for thousand, and, G, giga, for billion-Amer. not Brit.)
Even money left old-English shillings and pence, for decimalized francs and centimes, dollars and cents, and recently, euros and cents.
But time, that half-dimension that remained when DANIEL counted steps two-dimensionally on the horizontal plane and weighed the vertical climb, then divided forward-only time past from future, and distance by time, in rates of travel and travail-- count, count, weigh, divide, he explained the writing on the wall [REF: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN]-- metric SI time was stuck in the gear of old-English hours and seconds: rate-of-travel was trifurcated in km/h or in c-g-s or m-k-s: kilometer-per-hour for road traffic, centimeter-gram-second for physical-chemistry sciences and laboratory measurement, meter-kilogram-second for larger applications and astrophysically small observation.
The drawback for acceptance was that new-metric SI changed public roadsigns to keep private clocks old-English.
SOLUTION-APPARENT:
Nevertheless, Metric SI did provide the means and measure for establishing a true, metric unit of time,-- but not its nomenclature set: Its original definition of linear measure was based on a convenient macro-scale Earth parameter, the mean polar circumference, firstly quadranted in circularity, from the equator to the north pole, before graduating linearly in decimal powers, factors of 10,- the meter a ten-millionth; kilometers, millimeters, etc; and likewise the grad a hundredth; centigrads, etc. This basic Earth-circle-quadrant-decimal pattern has been reexamined and reproposed in centuries since, but the pursuit of committy was always to 4-or-6-digit similarity with English time, which resulted in minute-thirds 4-thousand and second-fifths 400-thousand,- neither particularly convenient nor familiar. Alternatively dividing a day decimally, as gained faveur with the revolutionary French Republican Calendricists, on 360 days per year, contradicted the basic Metric systematiques; and neither was adopted by the Committee, which acted to retinue the old-English second for subsequent rationality. But, nor was old-English, the basic metric; it was merely de facto.
Changing it subsequently, has been perennial discussion among government timekeepers; but consideration of a five-digit "hand" which makes a convenient and recognizable two-second unit (perhap like the kilogram is a two-pound unit) was not deemed superefficient, to take it up: Metric SI as-was, had already exacted its troll,-- and there did not appear much to recover as hours and seconds could be counted decimally, too: where time was measure passing, not part of a day. However, the five-digit metric possibility harbors a secret that, had it been known, probably scared the Committee out of its dither: It causes the most challenging of all in situ publications, the ubiquitous road speed sign, to not-change: n'even by half a usual increment of 5 mph, over the usual speed range:-- had the Committee selected this solution, it would have squared-off with Traffic Court: and probably figured it'd never win against their motoric tomes.
| The centigrad existing; the nomenclature, hesit, demur, is new, 1996. |
THE HESIT, UNIT OF METRIC TIME, NOMENCLATURE
The Standard Metric time unit, the hesit (cf hesitation), is one centigrad of heliocentric year-average Earth equatorial rotation, a ten-thousandth of a quarter mean solar day (retaining the "thumb" of circle quadrant and four "digits" of powers of ten: the "right hand" of time,- most-usually written in the thumb-index-three-finger "ow" 39.999-format). This can be put to atomic clock accuracy, for the epoch. [1]
THE KILOHESIT DEMUR, DECIMAL SCALE, NOMENCLATURE
40 kilohesits is a day: a hesit h = 2.16 seconds. A kilohesit or demur (cf demur: delay, linger) is 36 minutes, slightly more than a half hour,- convenient for television schedules and schools taking 2 or 3 per typical period. The metric demur nomenclature derives from, demi + heure/hour/uhr (Greek half + French/English/German hour o'clock; also Biblical millennial time began ca Ur, eastward in Eden). A hectahesit, hh = 3.6 min., is also convenient scale for recess-interludes by 1-4; 2hh = 7.2 min; 3hh = 10.8 min; 4hh = 14.4 min.
COMPATIBILITY:
The half-day metric clock spans 20 demurs, 10 demurs morning AM and 10 demurs afternoon PM (ante/post meridiem), and repeats for evening PS and pre-morning AS (post/ante semidiem-solariem).... A quarter-day clock cycles in 10 demurs with a quadrant-indicator.
Posted mph rates of travel are 3.56% faster by meters-per-hesit than by old-English miles-per-hour; Metric 70 mph is old-English 72.49 mph, not half-way to the next 5-mph graduation at most speeds on American freeways (cf 1.0 cm difference in tire radius); relegating changes of roadsigns to implement SI metric, as bilingual. Non-metric speedometers are 3.44% slower than metric.
COMPLETION:
The Standard Metric system taxonomy enumerates in the units-canon of meters-grams-hesits, m-g-h. Alternative canons, m-k-h, m-k-k, m-k-d, m-t-h, c-g-h, [kilograms, kilohesits, demurs, tonnes, centimeters], are decimal power scale equivalents; And, kmph [kilo-mph] refers to supersonic, hypersonic (eg. HSST shuttle transport), and spaceflight regimes upto solar wind velocity.
Metric time also brushes reproducible music pitch commonality, ever critiqued: Tones are metricized by twelfth roots of binary factors upon an initial multiple per second; A-440 cps being the contemporary standard. In hesits, A#-1000 cph registers 0.7% low (1.5% high by the C-256 cps classic) though the definition of A# was equally debated since before this tempered scale was assumed. Notable alternatives include pitch register memed on historic year numbers: F-1492 cph for Columbus landing in America, Gb-1582 cph for the Gregorian Calendar, Ab-1776 cph for American Independence, A-1901 cph (octave eqv. A-440 cps) for the American Standard Version Bible (A-1885 for the English Revised), A#-1996/2000/2001 cph for the new millennium (true/assumed/numeric).
Other metrics may change in time. Notably temperature, for example: Calibrating by water (H2O) at a speed, estimates temperature as its kinetic energy equivalent similar to Fahrenheit [German "speediness"] where 1 metric Fahrenheit = 104 m2/h2 (in practice, 141 mph); its metric degree F equals 0.92147 degree F; inversely 1 degree F = 1.08522 metric F; an offset of 500 metric F approximates "Room Fahrenheit" albeit 1.07 degree high at 0 degree F; (32 F = 34.727 metric F; 212 F = 230.067).
Metric time does not affect the calendar, as its basic unit is the day with subdivisions by demur (40th) and hesit (sub-thousandth); however, the old Roman February can be adjusted to the common mode and mean length by reassigning January 31st as February 0th (observing the advent of Computer Sciences *) and March 1st as February 29th/30th (per leap year), giving February 30/31 days, and January and March, 30; (and similarly May 1st as April 31st, and July 1st as June 31st: more nearly regularizing the whole year).
Recognition of the Standard Metric system as in situ, provided the invention of renomenclaturing, does not yet constitute retroaction: the ratio-constants need be enumerated; For example, Acceleration due to gravity at the Earth sea level is 45.7 mphph (meter/hesit²).
| Accuracy goes with year-day integrations, and tidality. |
NOTES:
[1] To atomic clock accuracy, h = 19,856,084,620 cycles of Cesium-clock before counting leap-hesit; or, h = 19,856,085,130 cycles, = 2.160000055 seconds, accounting 0.37 leap-hesit/year; epoch AD 2000.
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