Or we could do metric time - eviltoast
  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    This reminds me of a fantasy series I like, where the world still has 365 day, but every month is 30 days long, and the remaining 5 days are separate holidays for the solstices, equinoxes, and new years.

    Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      7 months ago

      Don’t decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.

          • Kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            7 months ago

            Big Decimal has brainwashed the population into thinking that 5 is a good number instead of the terrible prime number that it is. It should be clumped in with 7 and 11 as Bad Numbers when you’re dealing with anything except for 10s.

          • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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            7 months ago

            Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

      This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your “metric” seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.

      Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.

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      7 months ago

      I like this better because if you have to do one holiday outside of the calendar then why not 5 and the equinoxes and solsctices divide it up perfectly. Then everything else is nice and even. I assume weeks were six days long as that is how I always thought of it. 5 six day weeks.