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	Decimal Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On February 15, 1971, variously known as Decimal Day, Decimalisation Day and D-Day, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland decimalised their historical currencies.
		Following the rejection by parliament of Lord Wrottesley's proposals to decimalise Sterling in 1824 (which were prompted by the introduction in 1795 of the decimal French Franc), little practical progress towards decimalisation was made for over a century, with the exception of the two-shilling silver florin (worth 1/10 of a pound) first issued in 1849.
		The Decimal Currency Board (DCB) was created to manage the transition, although the plans were not approved by Parliament until the Decimal Currency Act in July 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decimal_Day (885 words)

	Encyclopedia: Decimal Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The British decimal Penny (1p) coin was issued on 15 February 1971, the day the British currency was decimalised; see Decimal Day.
		March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years).
		day takes a user input time, given as hours, minutes and seconds, converts to an equivalent decimal day (taking midnight as the start of the day) and write the result to stdout.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Decimal-Day (2613 words)

	A Guide To Metric Time
		Blocking out the day in ABT hours is manageable, but a tenth of a day is too long a period to be useful for higher resolution mapping of the day on the scale of appointments, TV show times and such (although it would still have value as a low resolution day-overview).
		Although a tenth of a day is a convenient unit for scheduling purposes, it is a rather arbitrary one as the base unit for naming purposes.
		The SI second is already used as a decimalized unit in science and engineering, so why not use the SI second as the time unit for technical purposes and the SI day as the unit for clock keeping and day-to-day use (timing boiled eggs and such).
	zapatopi.net /metrictime.html (2483 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 23 \| 1968: Decimal coins reach the high street
		The first decimal coins are making their way into purses throughout Britain, in preparation for replacing the current system of pounds, shillings and pence by 1971.
		Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, said the coins would be in the minority in tills and in change for a long time.
		The centuries-old tradition of using 12 pence to the shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound, was replaced by the new system of 100 new pence to the pound.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/23/newsid_2523000/2523895.stm (521 words)

	Talk:Decimal Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The commentary and content about the 1970s changeover from £sd to decimal pounds should probably be rationalised into one article.
		I think decimalization should stay more or less as is because it takes an international perspective, but with some UK/Ireland content scraped out to, say, Decimalization in the UK and Ireland, which would also contain info from here (which would redirect there) and also from British coinage.
		According to the BBC's "On This Day":1971: D Day delivers new UK currency (and 1966: Britain to go decimal in 1971 says "On 15 February 1971, otherwise known as "D Day" for Decimal Day, the United Kingdom adopted a decimal currency.").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Decimal_Day (1177 words)

	Decimal Time - Time of Day
		Although there have been decimal time proposals which are based upon decimally dividing other fractions of the day (1/20, 1/24, 1/25, 1/40), most divide the day by 10, 100, 1000, etc. When used on this site, decimal time of day refers specifically to the representation of the fractional day.
		There were 10 hours in a day, 100 decimal minutes in an hour and 100 decimal seconds in a decimal minute, so 0.12345 day = 1:23:45.
		Although unpopular then and not used anywhere officially today, this is what is often referred to as "decimal time," and many decimal time proposals are based upon French decimal time.
	www.decimaltime.hynes.net /times.html (400 words)

	Read about Decimal Day at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Decimal Day and learn about Decimal Day here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Decimal Association was founded in 1841 to promote decimalisation and metrication, causes that were both boosted by a realisation of the importance of international trade following the 1851
		Decimal Currency Board (DCB) was created to manage the transition, although the plans were not approved by
		Consideration was given to having a new "decimal pound" worth ten shillings in the old currency which would have resulted in the "decimal penny" being worth only slightly more than the old penny; in the event, it was decided by Halsbury that the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Decimal_Day (741 words)

	British Royal Mint - Decimal Coinage Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The need for a decimal currency system had been discussed in Parliament in the early nineteenth century and as far back as 1849 a florin was introduced - inscribed 'one tenth of a pound' with the intention that it should be the first step towards the adoption of a decimal system.
		To supervise this change-over the Decimal Currency Board was established and one of the decisions of the Board was to calm fears, especially from older members of the community.
		The decision to introduce a new decimal currency meant striking hundreds of millions of coins in readiness for D-Day - a task that was beyond the capacity of the existing mint at Tower Hill.
	www.royalmint.com /RoyalMint/web/site/Corporate/Corp_british_coinage/DecimalCoinage/Decimal_Coinage_Overview.asp?menuID=20&MenuItemID=50&MenuType=MENU (488 words)

	MODIFIED JULIAN DATE
		In the case of the Julian day count, the name was given because at the time, the Julian calendar was in use and, therefore, the epoch of the day count was fixed in respect to it.
		Note that this day count conforms with the astronomical convention starting the day at noon, in contrast with the civil practice where the day starts with midnight (in popular use the belief is widespread that the day ends with midnight, but this is not the proper scientific use).
		The days of the week can easily be computed because the same weekday is obtained for the same remainder of the MJD after division by 7.
	tycho.usno.navy.mil /mjd.html (919 words)

	Sixth 30 Days - Fourth Grade Mathematics
		Students will learn how to convert fractions to decimals with a calculator, discover the three ways a number can be written, and begin to learn the basic principles of probability.
		Hands-on lesson for day 165 of the 180 day sequence.
		This "action-packed" lesson was designed for day 179 of the 180 day sequence of lesson plans.
	glc.k12.ga.us /seqlps/sudspres.asp?SUID=156&SSUID=150&...+Mathematics (1004 words)

	Decimal Day - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although both currencies were separate — Irish Pounds and British Pounds — they were at the time tied to each other at a fixed 1:1 exchange rate.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Decimal Day contains research on
		Decimal Day, Background, See also, External links, Currencies of the United Kingdom and Numismatics.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Decimalization_Day (909 words)

	Conversion and Calculation Center Message Board
		The concept is fine but the chances of agreeing to go to 10 hours in a day (a decimal hour) is just not going to happen.
		Since it seems likely the day will always be a central part of our time keeping system for the foreseeable future, you have the same basis for either 'current' time or 'decimal' time.
		You can see that since the day is the same, 1 decimal hour is 2.4 current hours.
	www.convertit.com /Board/view.asp?mode=viewtopic&topicID=209&forumID=&catID= (1316 words)

	The Work of the UK Decimal Currency Board (1967-71) and Possible Lessons for the Changeover to a Common European ...
		The banks would change to decimal working on D Day so all cheques would have to be in £.p.
		The Decimal Currency Board co-operated closely with the Irish Board and with changeover groups in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. We also had to be aware of regional issues and, for example, to produce some publications in the Welsh language.
		In the decade before D Day a great deal of emphasis was placed on the ease with which people might translate prices and coin values from £.s.d.
	www.ecu-activities.be /documents/publications/publication/1994_3/moore.html (3143 words)

	February 1999/Date Compression Formats for Y2K Remediation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The only difference is an offset equal to the Julian Day of a period's starting date (2,305,447 for January 1st, 1600; and 2,451,068 for January 1st, 2000).
		Each 400-year period consists of 146,097 days [3], so it takes six decimal characters to represent any date in a 400-year interval.
		Decimal 146097 is equal to 23ab1h, so it takes only five characters to represent such a date in (DDDDD)h format.
	www.tcnj.edu /~hernande/cujv5/html/17.02/iofin/iofin.htm (1802 words)

	VHM/FGM User Notes
		The 26 day plots are produced directly from the data, with azimuth and elevation angles of the field calculated from the hourly averaged components.
		The 1 year plots are produced by calculating one day averages from the hourly averaged data set and the whole-mission plot is produced by calculating two day averages.
		However for the 26 day plots only, between 1993 day 93 and 1995 day 039, a scale running from 0 to 360 deg has been used to bring the azimuth angle back into the centre of the plots.
	helio.estec.esa.nl /Ulysses/ftp/cdroms/uls_01_a/Html/Vhm_fgm/Vhm_un.htm (550 words)

	DECIMAL CURRENCY ACT, 1970 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(b) shall be due and payable on decimal day if that last day of grace falls on the 13th or 14th day of February, 1971.
		(4) A tender of money if made, on or after decimal day, in bronze coins issued under the Act of 1969 shall be legal tender for the payment of an amount in the old currency not exceeding four shillings but for no greater amount.
		(7) On and after decimal day, silver coins of the denomination of ten shillings issued under the Coinage Acts, 1950 and 1966, shall be deemed to be coins of the denomination of fifty new pence issued under the Act of 1969.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /1970_21.html (3977 words)

	The GNU C Library: Formatting Calendar Time
		Days preceding the first Sunday in the year are considered to be in week
		of a year is the first week which has the majority of its days in that year; this is equivalent to the week containing the year's first Thursday, and it is also equivalent to the week containing January 4.
		All days preceding the first Monday in the year are considered to be in week
	www.la.utexas.edu /lab/software/lib/gnu/glibc/libc_434.html (1550 words)

	Interesting Thing of the Day: Decimal Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One could argue that the notion of a “day” having a fixed duration is a bit of a fiction, since the hours of sunlight vary according to season and latitude, but I think most people are content taking an average (i.e., a mean solar day) as the rule.
		Though the idea of a “day” and “year” are with us to stay, however, all the other units—seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, and months (and even seasons, depending on where you live)—are arbitrary divisions that are ripe for revision.
		The notion of decimal time appeals to my sense of logic—though it would appeal more if a year were, say, 100 or 500 or 1000 days long.
	itotd.com /index.alt?ArticleID=287 (1294 words)

	990510.dmjd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SYMPTOM: When converting from decimal MJD to calendar date, if the decimal day is very close to 1, the date returned is off by one day.
		Inadvertently, this created a logic defect wherein, if the time were closer to the end of the day than the roundoff value, i.e.
		the decimal time was effectively 1.0, the time was set to zero but the "one" day was not added to the date.
	www.ngs.noaa.gov /GRD/GPS/DOC/Defects/990510.dmjd.html (94 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 15 \| 1971: D Day delivers new UK currency
		The familiar pound (£), shilling (s) and pence (d) coins are to be phased out over the next 18 months in favour of a system dividing the pound into units of ten, including half, one, two, five, ten and 50 pence denominations.
		Banks have been closed for the past two working days to prepare for the implementation of the new currency on what has become known as D Day.
		"There is no case whatever for the retention of the sixpence in a decimal currency system, except for sentimentality for the 'dear old tanner'," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/15/newsid_2543000/2543665.stm (499 words)

	S.I. No. 203/1971: DECIMAL CURRENCY ACT, 1969 (APPOINTMENT OF DAY FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTION 2 (2)) ORDER, 1971.
		This Order may be cited as the Decimal Currency Act, 1969 (Appointment of Day for the Purposes of Section 2 (2)) Order, 1971.
		The 1st day of January, 1972 is hereby appointed as the day for the purposes of section 2 (2) of the Decimal Currency Act, 1969 (No. 23 of 1969).
		This transition period commenced on decimal day 15 February, 1971, with the introduction of that system.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI203Y1971.html (308 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Money \| Special_reports \| The day we all went decimal
		There was outrage when the price for one pint was rounded up, and then the cost of a pint a day was rounded up again.
		A 75-year-old Norfolk woman blamed decimal currency conversion in her suicide note.
		An 18-month changeover period was allowed for, but the old currency mostly disappeared within a few weeks - although a few shops kept pounds, shillings and pence for years.
	money.guardian.co.uk /theeuroandyou/story/0,11453,623710,00.html (634 words)

	D-Day @ BasketballLiving.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In English military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.
		Whilst the initial D in D-day is not an abbreviation of anything, it is taken from the word day and represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar terms.
		Decimal Day, or D-Day, the 1971 decimalisation of the pound sterling..
	www.basketballliving.com /allabout/D-Day (978 words)

	Explanation of Time Parameter
		This interval may be expressed in decimal days:.
		We define our parameter "Decimal Day of Year" that appears in the output tables and plots adding unity to this value.
		We consider this definition closer to intuitive perception of the notion "Day of Year".
	www.ngdc.noaa.gov /stp/IONO/Dynasonde/LY/timescale.htm (145 words)

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		fractional days left over hour = fd * 24.0 * check if leap year il = 1 rem = dyr/4.0 -int(dyr/4.0) if(rem.lt. 0.0001) il = 2 * leap year for centuries if(dyr.lt. 1.0) then il = 1 * but leap for every 400 years (1600 and 2000) if(ic.eq.
		This usually would be * only negative hour, but this also permits one to call it with * hour being zero and in negative seconds, for example.
		c c input: altitude(alt), azimuth(a), latitude(phi) c and decimal local sideral time(dlst) ***> n.b.: azimuth is taken to be east of north c output: declination(del), hour-angle(ha) and right ascension(alp) c c note: all inputs are assumed in decimal-degree form.
	www.phys.hawaii.edu /~guillian/sdata1/upmu/timesub.f (1775 words)

	MGI \| User Guide \| Referencing MGI \| mgiJulianDay Tag
		The mgiJulianDay tag converts a date and time to a decimal Julian Day or converts a decimal Julian Day to a specified date and/or time format.
		The default day is the current day of the month.
		"Day" displays a numeric day of the month as a number between 1 and 31.
	www.pageplanetsoftware.com /mgiuserguide/Referencing/mgiJulianDay.html (502 words)

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