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15853282 No.15853282 [Reply] [Original]

Why isn't time metric? Months and years are obviously based on celestial stuff that we can't change, but we could make days 10 hours long, with 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute.

If we wanted we could get rid of months altogether and just count the days since the new year.

>> No.15853347

>>15853282
time doesn't exist desu

>> No.15853355

Working 8 out of 24 hours per day is already terrible. Imagine having to work 8 out of 10 hours. Total wagie destruction.

>> No.15853360

metric is terrible at measuring real things that aren't arbitrary

>> No.15853478

>>15853282
We obviously need something that vidides into 60 or 360 since clocks are round, however getting rid of months and replacing them with 4 91-day seasons would probably make things simpler.

>> No.15853600

>>15853282
>Months and years are obviously based on celestial stuff
What is the celestial reason for months?

>> No.15853614

>>15853478
nigga it's 2024 nobody uses analog clocks anymore

>> No.15853619

>>15853355
Kek

>> No.15853629

>>15853478
>clocks are round
boomer moment

>> No.15853648

>>15853600
It's in the name--moon. Basically, the amount of
time passing from full to full (or new to new) moon
is 29 or 30 days. This is called the synodic month.

However, the Gregorian calendar is based off the
sun and the moon's phases doesn't line up neatly.
So each month switches between 28, 30 and 31
day (and an occasional 29).

>> No.15853676

>>15853282
swatch tried to make a decimal time dividing a day into 1000 .beats
the fact you never heard of this sums it up pretty well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

>> No.15853702

>>15853600
Goddess menstrual cycle.

>> No.15853705

>>15853676
Using 1000 beats per day wasn't the stupidest part of Swatch time. It was eliminating time zones, which sounds good on the surface until you realize that you're dropping your kid off at school on Tuesday and picking them up on Wednesday and all manner of other weird crap that comes from the division between days happening during the normal awake time of most humans. Works out fine though if you live near Swatch's headquarters.

>> No.15853717

>>15853282
Europoors are the funniest bunch.
>NOOOO SWITCH TO METRIC WHY ARE YOU USING THAT STUPID IRRATIONAL ILLOGICAL IMPERIAL SYSTEM!!!
>our nation is too accustomed in thinking imperial, it would be infeasible
>hey, how about you my dear europoor, why don’t you switch to metric time? Why are you still using some arbitrary illogical shit made by Babylonians and Greeks?
>N-NO ITS NOT STUPID 60 SECONDS IS ACTUALLY VERY INTUITIVE AND EASY TO WORK WITH PLUS IMAGINE IF EVERYONE SUDDENLY HAD TO CHANGE SYSTEM IT WOULD CAUSE SO MUCH CONFUSION AND TAKE SO MUCH TI-
>*europoor explodes in a myst of incoherency*

>> No.15853809

>>15853282

This one time in the old pleb factory I used to work in, there was this lady who was working on scheduling and payroll and she asked me how to decimalize time for expression on paystubs, labor time calculations etc. I provided her with the answer she needed. A short time later, after she left, the office realized that some guy on the shop floor had two brain cells to rub together, so they promoted me to deal with that sort of thing.

>> No.15853822

>>15853282
No physical counterpart

>> No.15853824

>>15853717
It only rus bydlos and vatniggers that think this way. In Western Europe, Germany, France, metric is commonly used and people understand imperial just fine, in the UK some imperial measurements are still in use.

>> No.15853840

>>15853824
Switch to metric time, I’ll wait

>> No.15853850
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15853850

>>15853282
They tried it after the French revolution, but the idiots set it with a weekend only every 10 days. OC everyone hated it.
https://youtu.be/kUIYI34CdkE

>> No.15853852

>>15853840
you were denied the recognition that would have carried you
-Northrop Frye

>> No.15853864

>>15853676
this is dumb because a second is a measure of the base resting human heart rate, which when referenced against the modern interpretation of the minute, is 60bpm, or 1 heartbeat per second.

the historical timing of a second makes sense, and arbitrarily trying to measure a minute as this "swatch beat" as 86.4 seconds makes no sense.

the obvious next step up after a second would be an integer grouping of hearbeats, not a fraction.

if a "minute" was 10 heartbeats, 10 seconds, then a modern hour would be 360 minutes, but that's a lot of minutes to count in an hour, even if it fits nicely with an assumption of 360° in a circle.
if an "hour" was 10 minutes, and a "minute" was 10 seconds, then a day would be 864 hours, but that's a lot of hours to count in a day.

with the second being what it is, a day is 86,400 seconds long, but that is only based on the modern measuring of grouping 24 hours, of which a day isn't exactly 24 hours because it goes out of sync and requires daylight savings + leap days, and so an actual day is 86,280 seconds, or 862.8 "hours".

clearly it suggests humans aren't supposed to be on this planet and their conventions are unnatural here.

>> No.15853903

>>15853864
O'Neill Cylinders will give us the ability to set our days and years to whatever system we want. Autism demands we get O'Neill Cylinders!

>> No.15853975

>>15853282
>Why isn't time metric?
Why isn't metric dodecal?

>> No.15855282

>>15853282
Metric time is 24 hours.

>> No.15855299

The French didn't finish the job. It would have been very based. The calculations on time would have reflected metric ease and consistency.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time