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People like to shit on the imperial measurements for its inconsistensies, but why is it we have a similarly dogshit one for measuring time? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It's like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet...

Edit: just to clarify, I'm more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Decimal time rule!

Funnily enough, Asimov novels sometimes feature decimal time clocks.

Revolutionary calendar in the early French revolution was decimal too : 12 months of 3 weeks of 10 days. 5 or 6 days at the end of the year for vacations. And they used decimal time too.

It was wildly unpopular. I think the decimal time was removed after a couple of years. Napoleon removed the decimal time.

I have both on a app on my phone, just for fun. You can easily find apps for that.