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?"

Comments

Actually, we should at least standardize...

[RobinH]

When I learned "metric" time in school, the idea was there was a set order that everything appeared in: biggest to smallest. Therefore, the time now is 2002 07 04 23:04. That still makes a lot of sense to me, compared with 7/4/02. It always confuses me - which is the month, and which is the day? Just to be sure, I've actually started spelling out the month like this: 4 JUL 2002. That way, there's no doubt.

Re:Divisibility

[cornice]

I agree. The metric system is great being base 10 and all but sometimes I wish we had evolved with 12 fingers just for this reason.

Re:Metric natural time

[ImaLamer]

Exactly. Considering the times are based on natural events it should stay that way.

"Well... it's been only one day but my watch says 1.2314. I'm glad we switched to this new version of time!"

Don't go screwing with a good thing. The time system we have now is somewhat an average of what ancient astronomy has come up with... it's worked pretty good so far.

Re:and the other measurements?

[RedWizzard]

Is there another number system besides base 6 that allows you to easily convert the earth's rotation of 15 degrees an hour into human readable time?

That's circular reasoning. You're arguing that "hour" is a good measure of time based on rotation per hour. Since there is nothing magical about 15 degrees we could easily define a "metric hour" to be a tenth of a day and say the earth's rotation is 36 degrees per "metric hour".