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user-inactivated  ·  4272 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Most ridiculous Mars landing ever
While we are at it, I'd love to switch to a decimal daytime measurement as well, instead of that stupid 24x60x60 thing




mike  ·  4272 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Heck yeah! We need a 10 hour day with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute. Each second would be slightly shorter, there would be about 7 new seconds in 6 old seconds.

A 30 old minute TV program would run about 25 new minutes, which in the new system is a quarter hour. One new hour would be 2:24 old hours, so a standard movie with commercials would have a run-time of about one new hour.

Metric time was proposed when France was putting the metric system in place, but it was rejected because people did not want to give up their timepieces which were often the most valuable thing people owned.

And how about a 13-month calendar while we're at it?

user-inactivated  ·  4272 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Reducing the second would wreck havoc in UNIX timestamps!