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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 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] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But not for 1/5

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Big Decimal has brainwashed the population into thinking that 5 is a good number instead of the terrible prime number that it is. It should be clumped in with 7 and 11 as Bad Numbers when you're dealing with anything except for 10s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 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] 2 points 6 months ago

It would add another level to time conversion between timezones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 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] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Mwahahaha!