Usually known as decimal time[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
Definitely a better name
Metric Time
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#72There is some evidence our bodies have split up the day into 16 parts: consider the 90-minute REM cycle. This suggests it would make more sense to try to use base-2. 4 bits of depth required to specify the 90-minute "hour". 16 bits of depth corresponds to a resolution of about 1.32 seconds. Then following the obvious pattern however "minutes" would probably be 8 bits of depth, corresponding to 5.625 standard minutes, so this is the most jarring difference. Of course then you wouldn't have clean divisions into 3, 5, etc. but it would be simple to calculate, notate, and reason about.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
True. And having 7 days per week is majorly impractical, also for reasons of divisibility. With 7 being prime, it's impossible to do things every other day or every three days without being left with a remainder.
Unless you are a bodybuilder. https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
What a great conversation. How did you find those posts from 15 years ago? XD
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#74I love how the example is super confusing.
You sleep 3.33… metric hours.
You fall asleep 9:50 metric time.
You'd think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.
But no, it's apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?
Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1/3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still don't understand how a metric day matches up with a standard day. I flunked 10th grade math and later dropped out, my brain is having a stroke just reading those graphs. I reverted back to seconds, which is how I used to use Unix timestamps when I first started with computers. But one day would have 100000 seconds, compared to 86400 seconds in standard time, so how can they both measure a day?
Seconds, minutes and hours in this system are not the same length as the standard versions.
Strange the page does not describe the "metric second" then, since it is not the same as the SI second. I thought that the second was the unit which was the same as in SI (=metric). But then it is not the same as the SI second, so not metric at all. Very confusing.
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#76Speaking of different clocks. Here is the year on a clock face. 12pm is summer solstice, 12am is winter solstice. https://clock.mohiohio.com ( I'm in the southern hemisphere so it might be the wrong way around if you aren't. I need to fix that.)
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#77It fails on a crucial aspect, of defining an alternative to Mississippis.
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#78I always preferred Internet Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
I fondly remember Swatch Internet Time and .beats. Back then (around 1998), I used to have a watch that displayed Internet Time and I genuinely believed that this was going to the future way of how we keep track of time and synchronise with each other.
Unfortunately, things turned out differently.
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#79I love how the example is super confusing. You sleep 3.33… metric hours. You fall asleep 9:50 metric time. You'd think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day. But no, it's apparently 2:75 metric time. Why? Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1/3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of facto…
We need tau-rational-time! We sleep for τ/3, noon is at π.
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#80I just realized that the standard time watch face feels like it will follow the sun rising from left to set on the right side. But since the sun is rising in the east, it should be horizontally reversed. Or you should always look to the south / to the sun. Or it feels right because of my western idea of writing from left to right?