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Re:Timeline of the far future by supermdguy on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @07:24PM (#17562866)
Not OP, but "The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 second" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
Re:Timeline of the far future by mockingbirdy on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:44AM (#17566738)
The duration of a second is defined using Caesium-133 [1], not using anything else like daytime or rotational speed. It's independent of such factors and will always be the same in a given frame of reference. No need to update those values.

edit: I think it will lead to the same or more problems because everyone would have to change all time-related constants. Easier to add a second to the day constant (because the day constant is a subset of the seconds constant, but the seconds constant affects many more aspects than just the day constant).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_caesium#Caesium-13...

Re:Timeline of the far future by smt88 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:21PM (#17563349)
But in that case, doesn't the "second" constant change (or the coefficient) and a metre remains the same length?
Re:Timeline of the far future by supermdguy on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:00PM (#17563458)
A meterstick would remain the same length, but the SI meter's length would change.