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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

Let's move to metric time!

1000 milliseconds in a second
100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
100 hours in a day
100 days in a month
100 months in a year.

We'd be so young!

[EDIT] Guys, I thought it was obvious I was saying this in jest... My b

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The French actually tried it, here's the Wikipedia article.

A more reasonable thing to do is something like Swatch Internet Time, you get 1000 ".beats" in a day with no time zones. Beyond a day it might not be too helpful to keep decimal, there will be 365+fraction days a year no matter how you measure it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, unfortunately for time we're tied to space-stuff. A day will always be useful, so will a year. A lunar month is not as useful as it once was, probably not necessary as a primary unit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, if you're on Earth, anyway.

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