Both 12 and 60 are superior highly composite numbers^[1] which makes mental math easy. 60 in particular is a very nice number because it has 12 divisors and is the smallest number divisible by all the numbers 1 through 6.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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What is left to say. The Babylonians made a wise choice.
I could get used to that, it's actually a great idea. Though probably impossible to implement due to inertia, at least currently.
The proof that it is probably not possible ever is that metric time was already adopted during the French Revolution, during the period when they were metricising everything else, and even they decided that it wasn't worthwhile.
Now I finally know how it feels to be a real American
For once I hate metric (time)
Neat but holy good fucking god the amount of programming it would take if it was ever decided to change this going forward, not to mention how historical times would be referenced. Datetime programming is already such a nightmare.
I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the ~~2000~~ metric switch.
Lol. Seriously though, for something like this these days, it will be interesting to see what happens given we will have to face the year 2038 problem. This kind of thing was still doable for the 2000 switch because of the relatively small number of devices/softwares, but because of the number of devices and softwares now, let alone in 2038, I really have no idea how it's going to be managed.
Pair it with International Fixed Calendar and I'm on board.
The new year should start with spring though, not in the middle of winter.
While were at it, the day should start at sunrise not the middle of the night.
Yes, this is great, always was.
And dont spoil it with timezones.
A friend once mused that “wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.” It’s one of the reasons I stopped being a watch guy (but more because I checked it compulsively but didn’t know what time it was when a coworker saw me check and ask the time).
Anyway, I prefer to try not to keep track of the time unless I need to be somewhere.
This feels like an April fools joke.
Ridiculous concept. If you can't do the math, get an app or ask an adult.
I think you meant to link decimal time per Wikipedia?
No. But they are so similar, I'd be happy to adopt either. In fact, decimal time was actually used briefly.
Here is the link you wanted:
I feel like I'm going crazy at moments like this.
Wikipedia on Metric Time:
The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples and submultiples with metric prefixes such as kiloseconds and milliseconds.
Edit: Attention that this is the SI second, not a decimal second
Wikipedia on Decimal Time:
This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds
metric-time.com :
With metric time the day is broken into 10 hours.
A metric hour is broken into 100 minutes.
A metric minute is broken into 100 seconds.
So either Wikipedia is wrong or the website.
Then the wikipedia is wrong? Because what the website you linked calls metric time Wikipedia calls decimal
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The metric system brain-worms run deep.