In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it’s time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

  • @brax@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Let’s move to metric time!

    1000 milliseconds in a second
    100 seconds in a minute
    100 minutes in an hour
    100 hours in a day
    100 days in a month
    100 months in a year.

    We’d be so young!

    [EDIT] Guys, I thought it was obvious I was saying this in jest… My b

    • observantTrapeziumOP
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      142 months ago

      The French actually tried it, here’s the Wikipedia article.

      A more reasonable thing to do is something like Swatch Internet Time, you get 1000 “.beats” in a day with no time zones. Beyond a day it might not be too helpful to keep decimal, there will be 365+fraction days a year no matter how you measure it.

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        22 months ago

        Yeah, unfortunately for time we’re tied to space-stuff. A day will always be useful, so will a year. A lunar month is not as useful as it once was, probably not necessary as a primary unit.

    • Rob Bos
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      82 months ago

      Seconds are already an SI unit. We’d have to redo every textbook, and overcome centuries of work.

    • Nik282000
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      42 months ago

      One day is a Dec, 10 Decs in a Wec, 10 Wecs in a Mec and 100 Mecs in a Yec. Your days are split into Ceti-decs and Micro-decs!

    • Undearius
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      1 month ago

      Starting from 1 year being 365 days

      1 month would be the equivalent of 3.65 days
      1 day would be 52.5 minutes
      1 hour would be 31.5 seconds
      1 minute would be 0.3 seconds
      1 second would be 3 milliseconds
      1 millisecond would be 3 nanoseconds