Post #3305205
2026-06-05 17:18 UTC
Replies (4)
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@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-05 19:21
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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@Bahnd@lemmy.world 2026-06-05 17:47
[threatens with ISO-8601]
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@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-06-05 17:48
Actual metric time was a fiasco I’ve always been fascinated by
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@TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-06 05:17
Yeah, how else would you say “a quarter past eight”, like “15 centimeters past eight”? It makes no sense!