Post #1431472

2026-04-12 15:20 UTC

Literally this. I was never in the military, and I’m glad they literally can’t draft me unless they lower a lot of requirements really fast. But 24-hour time is just so much more sensible. There’s no “AM or PM?” follow-up question, no guesswork. It just makes sense. If they made metric time, I’d adopt that shit in a heartbeat.

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 04:09

how heartbeat? I have a metric calendar that only one other person likes. 13 months of 4 weeks of 7 days, with one day leftover for celebrating my birthday (because i decided we’re doing the calendar, the day off is my birthday suck it trebek)

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@arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 15:47

the standard time that almost everyone uses is metric, i.e. is part of the metric system, its units are SI units. there was a system of *decimal* time, if that's what you mean, developed in France during the revolution, where a day is 10 hours, each 100 minutes, each 100 seconds so a decimal hour is 2.4 standard hours\ a decimal minute is 1.44 standard minutes\ a decimal second is 0.864 standard seconds

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@JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 16:05

The French tried metric time. It was pretty quickly abandoned.

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