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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This reminds me of a fantasy series I like, where the world still has 365 day, but every month is 30 days long, and the remaining 5 days are separate holidays for the solstices, equinoxes, and new years.

Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your "metric" seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.

Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think we are due another Y2K legacy system replacement global project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It would add another level to time conversion between timezones

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mwahahaha!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The 24h cycle with subdivisions in 60 is easy for dividing them up though. 60 divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like this better because if you have to do one holiday outside of the calendar then why not 5 and the equinoxes and solsctices divide it up perfectly. Then everything else is nice and even. I assume weeks were six days long as that is how I always thought of it. 5 six day weeks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Apparently in the series it's 6 5-day weeks. They also didn't have names for the days