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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.
"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.
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
"Also, think of all the s/w that would have to be rewritten.... flight control systems, databases, operating systems, the list is endless! Yikes!"
Yikes?... Try Who Hoo!!!
Think of all the $$$$ that PHBs were shovelling at Geeks for software and consulting 3 or 4 years ago when they were scared to death of Y2k!! We could do it all over again. This is a GOLDMINE !
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
I think that perhaps, he underestimates the difficulty involved in slowing the planet down to 100 revolutions per orbit.
Andrew