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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m an American, and I refuse to switch to metric time.

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OK then keep using your American Football innings per school shooting.

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    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Danm…ha ha

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    [threatens with ISO-8601]

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Today is May 6th.

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      • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        [Runs away hissing] 2026-06-05T18:25:00+00:00

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why not? What’s wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?

    We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.

    So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It’s completely arbitrary, I tell you!

    And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it’s insanity!

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    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As a true believer in SI units, nonetheless:

      When was it [the “second”, the smallest unit of time-measure under insanity-rules for unit hierarchy] defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference?

      I have to notice, as a long-time student of being-a-person - for ~most folks, a “second” is reasonably close to the length of a single heartbeat. It’s imprecise (badly depending on lots of stuff), and so maybe I’m just finding coincidence that has nothing to do with anything.

      BUT if we’re talkin bout earliest references for attempting to “measure” ongoing time, I mean, look no further, fellow probable-human-with-heartbeat!

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        60 bpm is about typical for a resting heart rate, I suppose. So that could make sense.

        About as much sense as positing that humans use decimal numeral systems (ignoring whatever the fuck the Romans used) because they have ten fingers.

        No way to really confirm, but it seems a likely guess.

        I wonder if Parmenides talks about it at all…

        Also, how did they even standardize this before digital clocks? Like did the first clock maker tell all his apprentices “This clock ticks every second. One tick is one second. Every clock you make must tick at exactly the same rate.”

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Daylight saving.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Now that that’s going away maybe we’ll finally have metric time. The age of the chroner is upon us!

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Actual metric time was a fiasco I’ve always been fascinated by

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for posting this. That was an interesting read.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, how else would you say “a quarter past eight”, like “15 centimeters past eight”? It makes no sense!

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Exactly

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    UTC isn’t metric time. LOL

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Metric time isn’t real. That’s the joke.

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve made this argument so many times. It just makes things so much easier when dealing internationally

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  but I live in EST land so therefore it is the best option

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If we’re not going by solar time we should go with TAI. Fuck leap seconds.

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