<p>best of Luck Eveybody 3 months for the berkeley decision</p>
<p>1 month 7 days</p>
<p>Cool. I hadn’t realized it was that close.</p>
<p>Who’s pumped?</p>
<p>Waiting is not fun.</p>
<p>Here’s a countdown, if anyone wants too look at it:
[Countdown</a> to Mar 25, 2010 7:00 PM in Madison](<a href=“Time since Mar 25, 2010 7:00 pm started in Madison”>Time since Mar 25, 2010 7:00 pm started in Madison)</p>
<p>We still have to wait over 2.5 million seconds. Crazy.</p>
<p>2.4 million seconds</p>
<p>2.3 million seconds.
Crazy. Hundreds of thousands of units of time…gone. I feel a little humbled.</p>
<p>22 more days.</p>
<p>“Crazy. Hundreds of thousands of units of time…gone. I feel a little humbled.”</p>
<p>ditto :]</p>
<p>19 days to go</p>
<p>I really wish time were base ten. Hundred seconds in a minute, hundred minutes in an hour, ten day weeks. All these sixties and sevens and twenty-fours are kind of ludicrous.</p>
<p>With the right math 17 days could be 1.7 million seconds, but instead it’s 1.5.</p>
<p>Glad to see other people posting times. Makes me feel less alone.</p>
<p>Three internets to anyone who figures out how much time is left in Metric Units:
[A</a> Guide To Metric Time](<a href=“http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/]A”>A Guide To Metric Time)</p>
<p>Very confused. SI (or cgs system) units include seconds, which are indeed decimal. hours and minutes are not part of the SI system. Anyone can report time in large multiples of seconds. </p>
<p>Humans have difficulty relating large numbers to everyday yardsticks (if you will pardon the deliberate anachronism introduced for effect) but the issue here is that the natural longer units, day, month, and year, are not even decimal multiples. Otherwise we could simply convert to mention that this activity took 2 decidays or .03 days. </p>
<p>Advocating that hours and minutes be dropped in place of kiloseconds for common use could just as easily be extended to dropping days and years, since those are not multiples of ten, at least not until we can adjust the rotation rate of the planet and its orbit to rationalize those lengths. </p>
<p>Very species-centric, don’t you think? The fact that we have ten digits on our limbs does not justify base ten as the only legitimate scheme. Convenience has its limits, as is illustrated by several attempts over the years to mandate that Pi should be defined as exactly 3.0 for convenience. You just can’t fool those circumferences or areas or volumes.</p>
<p>However, the most serious challenge of all is that days are not anywhere nearly consistent enough to be the basis for seconds. The recent earthquake in Chile, for example, altered the length by a day. [Chile</a> Earthquake Altered Earth Axis, Shortened Day](<a href=“National Geographic”>National Geographic) We need to add a leap second every 18 months or so to deal with the general slowing of the earths rotation. This is the reason to have a second as a standard that is invariant, based on the frequency of a selected emission from Cesium-133 atoms. </p>
<p>Interesting wikipedia post on both metric time and decimal time [Metric</a> time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time]Metric”>Metric time - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>However, 1.4837x10^6 seconds to go, or 1.4837 megaseconds for the decimal time afficionados, based on the very unreliable assumption that decisions will be visible at exactly 5PM PT. Assuming the system isn’t cratered from the huge volume of users and unable to be interrogated even when the results are up, as is all to often the case with overloads on decision day.</p>
<p>:) Indeed, I wasn’t sugesting that we stop time reform before defining new units for longer spans. Leap-years are rediculous. An entirely new calendar system, while not at all practical to implicate, would be more convinient. That is my point.
And I think we are allowed to be a little species centric when defining our own units? I’m not going to make my parot read metric time. He’s free to measure it in squawks. I’d just like something that converts easily. Months, days, weeks - they all don’t.</p>
<p>And by implicate, I meant institute. Not at all practical to institute, for the same reasons that the US won’t switch to metric while our plants build in eigths of inches. A costly swap.</p>
<p>wait how do u guys know decisions come out on march 25th? i thought it was just any time in march?</p>
<p>Log onto your MyBerkeleyApp site and it plainly lists that as the decision date. </p>
<p>Be prepared for huge overload and lots of wailing as people struggle to read their decision, at least based on every prior year and the most recent similar events like summer session registration and famous guest lecturer tickets.</p>