[Shop-talk] metric time - was OT- Excel help

[fishplate at gmail.com (Jeff Scarbrough)]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Brian Kemp <bk13 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  Then again, what about decimal time.

In my job, I often have to make sense of time-based data that spans
days or weeks.  The way we do this is to assign each data point a
number based on the day of the year, plus a fraction representing the
elapsed part of the 24-hour day.  Three decimal places is enough to
represent minute-by-minute data, and pretty soon you learn to
recognize that 62.25 is an early March day at 6:00 in the morning,
while 185.875 is a good time to see some fireworks.

I don't know if I want to live in that world all the time, though...

Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga.