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@Gork@lemm.ee to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 1 year ago

Or we could do metric time

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Or we could do metric time

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  • @mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    34•1 year ago

    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?

    • @Sconrad122@lemmy.world
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      11•1 year ago

      Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful

      • @mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        1•1 year ago

        Mwahahaha!

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠
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      8•1 year 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.

    • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      14•1 year ago

      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.

      • @SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
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        3•1 year ago

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

        • @davitz@lemmy.ca
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          5•1 year ago

          Will this satisfy your request? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem?wprov=sfla1

      • @Gondolaaaa@lemmy.world
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        2•1 year ago

        It would add another level to time conversion between timezones

    • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      12•1 year ago

      Don’t decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.

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