Isaac Asimov and the millenium bug [offtopic]
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Continuing off-topic, I remember that when I was young (very young) I
> read a nice proposal for a reform of the calendar, made by Isaac Asimov.
> I cannot find it anymore and, for some strange but human reason, I'm no
> more in the possibility to ask Isaac himself.
>
> Did anybody read it and can tell me where I could find it?
I have it in a book called "Change! 71 Glimpses of the
Future". This book is a list of articles written by Isaac from 1974
to 1980.
I only have it in spanish; ISBN: 84-206-9978-0.
Isaac Asimov suggests that we should always use the decimal
system, with one day as the base, and forget about hours, minutes,
seconds, weeks, months, years and so on. For example, the actual date
would be "10227.4042" (10227 days since Jan 1 1970, 0.4042 days since
12 AM (UTC)). Using 4 decimals will give us a precision of 8.6
seconds.
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Juan Cespedes
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