Changing to the Metric System

In his note (Journal 21, 81) on this subject, Ronald Turner says ‘No longer will orbital periods of the rotation of the Earth on its axis be measures of time’. This is not so, either in general or in the particular, case of navigation.Universal Time (U.T.), which is the generally accepted name for Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.), continues to be essential for all purposes (in astronomy, geodesy, surveying and navigation) for which are required astronomical observations related to the precise position of the observer on the Earth's surface. The Nautical Almanac must continue to tabulate the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with G.M.T. as the time-argument; and observations should be timed in a time-system related to U.T., such as the broadcast time-signals of Coordinated Universal Time (U.T.C:).

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The SI (new metric system) in psychological research and reporting

Landauer

1969

Australian Psychologist

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Changing to the Metric System

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