Comment on Or we could do metric time
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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?
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.
I think we are due another Y2K legacy system replacement global project.
Will this satisfy your request? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem?wprov=sfl…
It would add another level to time conversion between timezones
Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful
Mwahahaha!
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.
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.
Apparently in the series it’s 6 5-day weeks. They also didn’t have names for the days
BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 months 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.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 7 months ago
With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
But not for 1/5
kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 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.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 7 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.