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Isn't it Time for Metric Time?
xenocytekron writes: "Sure, our time system is ok, but does it make sense? Is it easy? Think about it: 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 25 hours to a day, all the way to 365 days to a year. Currently, all the world uses the Metric System except for the US. But what about Time? The solution is Metric Time, that is, a time system which uses Base-10 and Metric Standards. So what do you think: Is it Time, for Metric Time?"
When did this happen? I have only been getting 24 and I sure could use an extra hour to sleep in.
"60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 25 hours to a day"
;)
Cool... Where do you live? I can use an extra hour of coding time every day...
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car
gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!" --Abe Simpson (Homer's dad)
...if we could convince the article's web server that there were 25 hours a day, it would have an extra hour of CPU time and it wouldn't get slashdotted until AFTER some responses were posted.
Their base unit could be how long their server survived /.
The link appears to be slashdotted.. 2 minutes after the story was posted.
Don't you mean 0.12 kiloseconds?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
An interesting caveat in there about how metric hours wouldn't be very useful for evenly blocking out television programs of the length we are accustomed to. But which came first: is there something crucial about the 30/60 min timeslot (with ads), that is inherent to the human attention span? Or is it simply a case of people becoming accustomed to that length of time. If programs were generally 35 minutes instead of 30, or 70 instead of 60, I would guess that the depth of the narrative structures of most programs benefit greatly. Maybe there's a real psysiological limit for which that's pushing people's time too far, or maybe it's mere convention to keep tracking easier.
Personally, I think metric time would lead to exactly what it led to in France: lots and lots of public decapitations.
Wooo-hooo! Is that the version of IP protocol that's been secretly developed during 25th hour every day?
Am I just dumb or everybody here is drunk? Or, perhaps both?
That'd solve that whole global warming thing, too.
Why do nerds have to screw up everything for everyone else?
I just don't get it. VCR programming now this.
Get your Unix fortune now!
25 hours a day... This guy must be a Martian, since they get nearly 25 hours a day there (24.75 to be more accurate).
This clearly demonstrates that the whole metric system is a Martian plot!
That's way Mars Polar Explorer got killed by the metric/imperial system mix up! They've already infiltrated NASA!!!!
Watch the skies!
But still more than a Ford Explorer.
But at the time I'm posting this...
It's Miller Time!
[Stick to metric time if you're under 21]
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
0000-0059 = 1 (Midnite)
0100-0159 = 2
0200-0259 = 3
0300-0359 = 4
0400-0459 = 5
0500-0559 = 6
0600-0659 = 7
0700-0759 = 8
0800-0859 = 9
0900-0959 = 10
1000-1059 = 11
1100-1159 = 12
1200-1259 = 13 (Noon)
1300-1359 = 14
1400-1459 = 15
1500-1559 = 16
1600-1659 = 17
1700-1759 = 18
1800-1859 = 19
1900-1959 = 20
2000-2059 = 21
2100-2159 = 22
2200-2259 = 23
2300-2359 = 24
2400-2459 = 25
So as you can see, technically, there is 24 hours 59 minutes, and 59 seconds, and 59 milliseconds, and so on and so fourth.
To quote a sig:
naidne elttil etah I
I think that perhaps, he underestimates the difficulty involved in slowing the planet down to 100 revolutions per orbit.
Andrew
I think we should use epoch time for daily usage.
Me: Hey bob, what time is it?
Bob: About 1 billion.