Earlier quoted context omitted.
FTFY: English does not need a second conflicting definition for the second.
I second that statement.
I'll be the second second.
Metric Time
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#5210 hr dial will certainly create problems for human systems, because, time counting is getting relatively more coarse that way. instead a 20 hr dial is better facilitating, but can it be called matric time?
thought as, a 10x10 clock, metric because 10 hr dial, has 100 mins every hour. it is sort of ok, but number of hours reduced from 12 to 10, that is counting 4 less hours everyday, means trouble and 100 mins every hr though --- in total a 10x10 clock is 'difficulty'.
a 20 hr dial, on the other hand --- dose it solve?
somewhere i though of a 16 hr display too.
Faisal
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#53I like imagining how the life would look like if you change what is essentially a convention. Set the week to 6 weekdays and a 3-day weekend, have 6-hour workdays, or 80% company work / 20% service to your community. I'm very curious about the societal change a universal basic income could bring.
With metric hours, I'd hope 1-classical-hour meetings wouldn't become 1-metric-hour meetings because that's what we did in the past ;)
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#54Personally, I prefer 100 metric hours in a day. Each centiday is about 15 minutes. Each milliday is about 90 seconds. And a microday is slightly shorter than a second. But, sadly, this revolution won't occur until after I'm elected God-Emperor of Mars, so it is all rather academic.
Centidays seem like a very convenient unit to plan your day with. Meetings are already at the 15min boundaries.
You have my vote!
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#55Nice visual presentation of the concept.
On the likelihood something like this might be considered, dont hold you breath. Our continuing use of Babylonian time is probably the most pervasive and enduring network effect known to humanity.
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#56You could call this lots of things, but you shouldn’t call it “metric” because its second is not a metric second. In the SI (metric) system, the second is one of the fundamental units. The world does not need a conflicting definition for the second. As someone who’s implemented a date and time library, the real pain is in dates, leap seconds and time zone transitions. 86,400 seconds in a day is a relative piece of ca…
You are right of course but also keep in mind that, and that is just my thoughts after reading, is that the French tried to implement decimal time along with the rest of what we call the metric system in the 18th century. And it was the only system people rejected. So I think the author named everything metric to make the point that if it would be part of the system a metric second would be … long. But again I could…
Every area had a mile that was a different lenght from the others. Time was the same everywhere already.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
And 12 divides into 2, 3, 4 and 6. Base 12 is far superior to base 10. Those Babylonians weren’t stupid.
Also, while we have 10 fingers, we have 12 finger segments to count with (disregarding the thumb): https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/how-10-fingers-became-12-...
base 6 works even more simply with two hands, 0-5 on each. And less symbols to learn, much smaller multiplication table, and so on.
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#58I always preferred Internet Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
I still remember reading about Swatch time years ago in some pc magazine. Back then it felt like a cool idea that surely will be adopted as standard unit of time for the Internet era, making communication across the globe much easier and sadly... reality was quite different.
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#59You could call this lots of things, but you shouldn’t call it “metric” because its second is not a metric second. In the SI (metric) system, the second is one of the fundamental units. The world does not need a conflicting definition for the second. As someone who’s implemented a date and time library, the real pain is in dates, leap seconds and time zone transitions. 86,400 seconds in a day is a relative piece of ca…
Is celsius metric?
It's part of SI.
Kelvin is the base unit of temperature; Celsius is a derived unit.
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#60I'm really fascinated by such ideas. However, it's just academic as time is so much baked into physical devices (watches, clocks, ...) so this will most probably never happen. I'd rather start redoing the calendar. It doesn't need to be metric but the different lengths of the months (and the naming Oct. should be 8 not 10?) could be reworked.
There are ideas of redesigning calendar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry454
and ideas for time keeping on other planets like