When I was a kid, I was such a nerd, that I invented my own decimal timekeeping system.
Even wrote a little macOS menubar clock for it — I was dead-serious.
Edit: omg the website still works, even though I never put any real content there …
Edit 2: Found this old explanation I apparently put together in July 2010, according to my image archive:
Ehhhh, no. There are very important reasons we divide the time this way. 24 is a highly composite number (a number with more divisors than all numbers preceding it; like an opposite of a prime number). This allows us to easily divide the day into halves, thirds, quarters and sixths. So is 60, with even more divisors.
My guess is the same thing goes for the switch from Roman to Julian calendar (ten to twelve months in a year).
Interestingly, the same goes for 360 degrees in a full angle.
Swatch tried Internet Time: www.swatchclock.com
Wait until you hear about traditional Japanese timekeeping, where the hours had different lengths throughout the year, depending on daylight: https://youtu.be/1BJmnEa6YGE
The joys of a base-60 number system
"The day will start when the sun comes up?" No, when the sun is the furthest away it can be from us.
12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Inventor for sure used the
imperialbarbarian measuring systemOh and when the minute hand is 3/4s of the way to the 12 it's quarter too...5.
Tonne? You mean megagram?
