| A Proposal for Earth Decimal Time | Version | 1.4 | Last Modified at | 0.244379 | Earth Decimal Time (EaDT) | |||||||||||
| Copyright © 2007, Richard L. Mitchell | ||||||||||||||||
| Mean Solar Year = | 365.2421934 | |||||||||||||||
| Much like current time except no dividing by 12. Also years exactly track the Sun and months exactly track the Moon. | Start of 2007 = | 39162.005 | ||||||||||||||
| Current Method of Time Measurement | Decimal Time | Nickname | Decimal to Current | |||||||||||||
| Year | Starts January 1 | Year | Starts at vernal equinox, divisions are determined by mean solar year | Same as solar year | ||||||||||||
| Deciyear | One tenth of a year based on mean solar year | 1.2 | months | |||||||||||||
| Month | Starts January 1, variable number of days | Month | Starts at first new Moon closest to the vernal equinox | Same as lunar month | ||||||||||||
| Centiyear | One hundreth of a year | 3.652421934 | days | |||||||||||||
| Day | Day | First day of month starts as above, second day starts one Earth rotation later | Same | |||||||||||||
| Milliyear | Mil | One thousandth of a year | 8.765812642 | hours | ||||||||||||
| Hour | One-twentyfourth of a day | |||||||||||||||
| Decimilliyear1 | Demil | One ten-thousandth of a year | 0.876581264 | hours | ||||||||||||
| Centimilliyear1 | Cemil | One hundred-thousandth of a year | 5.259487585 | minutes | ||||||||||||
| Minute | One sixtieth of an hour | |||||||||||||||
| Microyear | Mic | One millioneth of a year | 31.55692551 | seconds | ||||||||||||
| Decimicroyear1 | Demic | One ten-milloneth of a year | 3.155692551 | seconds | ||||||||||||
| Second | One sixtieth of a minute | |||||||||||||||
| Centimicroyear1 | Cemic | One hundred-millionth of a year | 0.315569255 | seconds | ||||||||||||
| Time would be stated as x.xxxxxx if down to the microyear. | ||||||||||||||||
| Time at the end of the year might reset before reaching .999999 if the year is shorter than the Mean Solar Year. | ||||||||||||||||
| If the year is longer than the Mean Solar Year, time would be stated as y+.yyyyyy where y is the next year and .yyyyyy is | ||||||||||||||||
| the factor over. | ||||||||||||||||
| There would still be 12 months in the year of 29.5 days each. | ||||||||||||||||
| The first month of the year could start up to 14.25 days prior to the vernal equinox and up to 14.25 days after. | ||||||||||||||||
| The day at the end of the month would normally straddle the month line i.e. be at the end of the previous month and | ||||||||||||||||
| at the beginning of the next month. | ||||||||||||||||
| Time would be the same all over the Earth. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 Combining decimal references is normally not considered acceptable. In fact there is movement for getting rid of Deci and Centi since they are not 10-3 references. I believe we need these degradations though. I proposed some nicknames. | ||||||||||||||||