If we’re really committed to not going by solar time, everything should be UTC.
I’m an American, and I refuse to switch to metric time.
[threatens with ISO-8601]
Today is May 6th.
[Runs away hissing] 2026-06-05T18:25:00+00:00
Yeah, how else would you say “a quarter past eight”, like “15 centimeters past eight”? It makes no sense!
Exactly
Actual metric time was a fiasco I’ve always been fascinated by
Thanks for posting this. That was an interesting read.
Why not? What’s wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?
We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.
So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It’s completely arbitrary, I tell you!
And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it’s insanity!
As a true believer in SI units, nonetheless:
When was it [the “second”, the smallest unit of time-measure under insanity-rules for unit hierarchy] defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference?
I have to notice, as a long-time student of being-a-person - for ~most folks, a “second” is reasonably close to the length of a single heartbeat. It’s imprecise (badly depending on lots of stuff), and so maybe I’m just finding coincidence that has nothing to do with anything.
BUT if we’re talkin bout earliest references for attempting to “measure” ongoing time, I mean, look no further, fellow probable-human-with-heartbeat!
60 bpm is about typical for a resting heart rate, I suppose. So that could make sense.
About as much sense as positing that humans use decimal numeral systems (ignoring whatever the fuck the Romans used) because they have ten fingers.
No way to really confirm, but it seems a likely guess.
I wonder if Parmenides talks about it at all…
Also, how did they even standardize this before digital clocks? Like did the first clock maker tell all his apprentices “This clock ticks every second. One tick is one second. Every clock you make must tick at exactly the same rate.”
Easy-peasy, first clock-maker set their metronome to 60 bpm, fiddled with the fiddly bits on the clock until no one could hear a difference. Said to apprentices, “see?”
Daylight saving.
Now that that’s going away maybe we’ll finally have metric time. The age of the chroner is upon us!
It’s not going away?
Oh you’re right, it’s becoming permanent. Normal time is going away.
What an altered dimension we’ve found ourselves in. Poor Harambe… 😔
Where are you that they are doing that? That’s not the case where I am.
UTC isn’t metric time. LOL
Metric time isn’t real. That’s the joke.
You are not fun.
I’ve made this argument so many times. It just makes things so much easier when dealing internationally
but I live in EST land so therefore it is the best option
It’s crazy to me how people keep making memes where the group with Florida isn’t a part of the mental illness. Really speaks to the severity of their mental illness.
Florida is really more like a global epicenter of mental illness, unique and distinct, lol. Magnetically attracting the unwell of various stripes, concentrating and uhhh…cultivating that funk, which of course can’t help but radiate outwards, given the frightening densities of “wtf?”
Apparently even tryna think about how to classify the place causes weird distortion effects.
Yeah, Florida is basically a retirement home, with boomers aging their population is increasing a lot right now. Its quintessential boomerness.
What’s ‘Mountain’? I’ve seen TV shows advertised as Eastern, then their voice gets quiet and they mention Central. Sometimes they do the same for Pacific. Never heard of ‘Mountain.’ Sounds fake.
What’s ‘Mountain’?
Its a really big hill that is hard to climb.
Surely you can’t be serious?
- Kate Bush and Sisyphus, simultaneously
Never heard of ‘Mountain.’ Sounds fake.
“It’s Mountain Time” is what your mom says when she calls me.
there’s only like 8 people there, so it doesn’t really matter.
I’m one of them. At least 3 of us are on Lemmy!
Statistically, that’s impressive!
People on mountain time have mountains to entertain them, so they dont watch tv
If you live in Eastern, you’ve heard Central on tv or the radio because it neighbors you and some people in Central might be getting the same broadcast. You’ve heard Pacific because a lot of media is out of LA. There’s nothing important in the Mountain time zone, and it’s far away from you, so you don’t hear about it often.
They claim it includes New Mexico, but I don’t see why we’d have a new Mexico when the old one is still perfectly good. Sounds fake to me
The area that New Mexico occupies was named Nuevo Mexico before Mexico existed and was called Mexico, which makes Nex Mexico, OG Mexico.
It’s 245pm in California right now.
If you go to parts of Arizona they might tell you it’s 345pm. Ask in Phoenix and they’ll say 245pm.
Ask in Phoenix in the winter and they remember to say hour different from Pacific time.
They can’t get the story straight.
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I guess we don’t have the concept of time in Canada (or Mexico) based on this map. Thats also ignoring all of the other world timezones
edit: I’d also label anything American mental illness but I’d be catching my own strays given I’m in EST
Confirmed. I’m in Canada and I’m always late.
Real shit. No cap. No lies told.
I’m very old.
Welp, it’s 1 PM in Hawaii, time to go settle in for the night.
Looking at you, China.
They should never have done away with Specific Time.
