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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: SI units updated
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 09:21:40 +0200
Date: 2018-10-03T09:21:40+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pp1qm7$1mui$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d8c03c42-34dc-41d2-9cdd-9967f838b81f@googlegroups.com

On 2018-10-02 23:43, Shark8 wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 2:12:04 PM UTC-6, AdaMagica wrote:
>> I just found out that NIST is aiming to redefine SI in November this year, so I updated the values of the natural constants to the latest values as displayed by NIST.
>> Kilogram and a few other units will then be redefined via Planck's constant.
> 
> Interesting; though I'm not sure what advantage that [using Planck's Constant] would have.
> 
> I've heard that ISO 8601 [representing time, intervals, periods, etc] is going to be updated this year. Since this is something that my current project will need, albeit tangentially, I'm planning on making an implementation of it (though possibly augmented w/ scheduling).

Time is no physical dimensioned value. Only duration is, though the 
forms ISO 8601 uses for duration are no SI's dimensioned values, not 
even properly spelled irregular duration values, e.g. 25h.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-03  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-29 20:51 SI units updated AdaMagica
2018-10-01 19:24 ` Shark8
2018-10-02 11:26   ` AdaMagica
2018-10-02 14:36     ` Shark8
2018-10-02 20:12       ` AdaMagica
2018-10-02 21:43         ` Shark8
2018-10-03  5:48           ` J-P. Rosen
2018-10-03  7:21           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2018-10-03 14:40             ` Shark8
2018-10-03 17:33             ` AdaMagica
2018-10-03 19:47               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-03 17:37           ` AdaMagica
2018-11-05  8:47   ` reinert
2018-11-15 11:46     ` AdaMagica
2018-11-05 14:10 ` Simon Wright
2018-11-15 12:41   ` AdaMagica
2018-11-15 16:13     ` Simon Wright
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