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This is the most succinct way I’ve heard metric time explained. Very easy to understand the conversion and the reasons to use it.
UTC while abolishing time zones is the superior format anyway.
2024-02-15T23:30:33Z
Largest to smallest. The only other logical way is smallest to largest. But that gets annoying when filing systems are involved.
Except that there are actually 1.44 standard minutes in a metric minute
24*60/10/100=1.44
It doesn't explicitly say it, but that redefines the second to be 1/100,000th of a day.
Doing that would break everything.
That said, I wish speed limits were in m/s. It makes more sense to me.
Miles or kilometers per hour makes sense in the context of travel, you can very easily estimate how long it's going to take to get somewhere.
Ironically, km/h is better for estimation because hours are 3600 seconds. If an hour were 1000 seconds or whatever, it would barely take more effort to calculate with m/s
I was thinking about estimating stopping distances and reaction times. The number of metres you cover every second becomes important then.
yeah, there was a point in time when we could have. Just now our standards are to ingrained
Not even 4am! I'm going back to bed.
Just leaving this here in case anyone is interested. A dozenal clock! Day (24h) divided to twelve parts divided to twelve parts, etc. https://clock.dozenal.ca/
This is bullshit.
Seconds are already metric no need to redefine them.
Furthermore, if we redefine seconds we would also need to redefine a lot of other units.
This would result in massive confusion and a lot of avoidable errors in science and engineering, similar to what is already happening in the us with their bullshit freedom units.
It is not even that much harder if you get used to it.
If 86.4ks are too much to count for you, you could instead resurrect the metric prefix myria- for 10⁴. So 1day = 8.64 myriaseconds. And instead of minutes, use hectoseconds.