{"id":1281,"date":"2009-05-22T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/05\/22\/1281\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:43:58","slug":"more-about-metric-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/more-about-metric-time\/","title":{"rendered":"More about metric time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oflittleinterest\/159050821\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/64\/159050821_96d412e1e5_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oflittleinterest\/159050821\/\">Nixie Clock #2 Front view<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/oflittleinterest\/\">Sascha Grant<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/473\/\">metric time<\/a> in the past, but it&#8217;s nice to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/metrictime\/\">I&#8217;m not alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more details about metric time in this guide than I managed to squeeze into my old blog posting, so it&#8217;s well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Be aware, though, that he&#8217;s only advocating metric units to replace hours, minutes and seconds, while I&#8217;m in favour of replacing weeks, months and years as well.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, he has a page with <a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/zapatoware\/clocks.html\">JavaScript clocks<\/a> that you are allowed to adapt for your own purposes, so I&#8217;ve modified one to show the complete day and time decimally &ndash; have a look at the top of the right-hand sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>It feels so much more tangible when you can see the metric seconds ticking away, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nixie Clock #2 Front view Originally uploaded by Sascha Grant I&#8217;ve blogged about metric time in the past, but it&#8217;s nice to see that I&#8217;m not alone. There are many more details about metric time in this guide than I managed to squeeze into my old blog posting, so it&#8217;s well worth a read. Be aware, though, that he&#8217;s only advocating metric units to replace hours, minutes and seconds, while I&#8217;m in favour of replacing weeks, months and years as well. Best of all, he has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114,137,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing","category-science","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}