Post #3305203
2026-06-05 19:21 UTC
Why not? What’s wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?
We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.
So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It’s completely arbitrary, I tell you!
And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it’s insanity!
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@Spooge@lemmy.world 2026-06-05 20:18
Daylight saving.
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@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-06 03:08
As a true believer in SI units, nonetheless: When was it [the “second”, the smallest unit of time-measure under insanity-rules for unit hierarchy] defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? I have to notice, as a long-time student of being-a-person - for ~most folks, a “second” is reasonably close to the length of a single heartbeat. It’s imprecise (badly depending on lots of stuff), and so maybe I’m just finding coincidence that has nothing to do with anything. BUT if we’re talkin bout earliest references for attempting to “measure” ongoing time, I mean, look no further, fellow probable-human-with-heartbeat!