What do you think?

You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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    1 month ago

    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.


    1. 1 ↩︎

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I could get used to that, it's actually a great idea. Though probably impossible to implement due to inertia, at least currently.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    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.

      • Lojcs@lemm.ee
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        edit-2
        1 month ago

        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.

      • Lojcs@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        Then the wikipedia is wrong? Because what the website you linked calls metric time Wikipedia calls decimal

  • Turbo@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    This feels like an April fools joke.

    Ridiculous concept. If you can't do the math, get an app or ask an adult.