Talk:Decimal time/Pandecimal
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A page with this title was deleted as a copyvio. It cited"TS Database", which, as of 05:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC), describes itself as a definitive source on the "Tempus Spatium system" and the "TS Philosophy". This page now provides general context for the various discussions that took place in the context of the text of the deleted page, by describing the contents of "TS Database".
The document begins with six "premises", mostly stated as subjectless predicates (or imperative sentences). They concern, respectively:
- Use of one millionth of a mean solar day as a fundamental time unit.
- Using the day of the Sputnik launch (in 1957) as the zero value of time (citing a NASA article, "Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age").
- Using ten numerically designated time zones.
- Using the spring equinox at the first day (designated as zero) of the the year, and some sort of scheme for numbering occurences of the new moon
- Overhaul of the rest of the metric system to provide other physical units
- The "uncompromising logic" of the system.
A section entitled "System Base" describes three fundamental units: the sekant, metra, and grav, units of time, length, and mass respectively, with abbreviations S, M, and G, and gives "official" definitions that are more or less in the style of the metric-system definition of the second, except for the definition of the grav (roughly 1030 times the mass of an electron).
A section on "New Metric Prefix Set" states prefixes analogous to, e.g., "kilo" and "micro". The uncompromising logic includes making the prefixes for positive powers of 10 an upper-case letter followed by "ya", and the prefix for its reciprocal end with the corresponding lower-case letter followed by "yo". For any exponent from 1 to 9, this letter is a consonant. From 12 to 30, only the positive and negative exponents that are multiples of 3 have corresponding prefixes; X, Y, Z, and three vowels with diacritical marks are among these. (The Yya and yyo prefixes, one must assume, use Y as a consonant followed by Y as a vowel; the oral distinction between, e.g., Xya and Zya is not clear.)
The same section describes the functions of calendars being taken over by "linears" of 10 hundred-day pages; months and years are considered as divorced from the concept of dates: months are concepts from another system that can be converted to the system's dates, which amount to numbers of days since Sputnik; "solar years" are part of the system, but are most conveniently related to dates via tables or programs. An analogue of the week is the Vyasekant, with each of the 10 days of each one having a name, starting with "zerosday". Whether as an expression of, or an exception to, uncompromising logic, this measurement system specifies that there are six working days and four "off days" per Vyasekant, and that the working portion of a day lasts 4 Kyasekants (9.6 hours).
Dates since Sputnik are written as six-digit numbers; those before Sputnik are not considered to measure time preceding it, but rather time since either a million days before it (in 781 BCE), written with six digits, or a hundred million days before it, written with eight digits.
