People like to shit on the imperial measurements for its inconsistensies, but why is it we have a similarly dogshit one for measuring time? - eviltoast

For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It’s like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet…

Edit: just to clarify, I’m more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

  • psud@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    371 days in leap years!

    Also January 1 is always Monday, and you could paint the calendar on your wall because every year would have the same dates on the same days, just with an extra week added to December every several years

    The biggest problem is that it doesn’t track the actual solar day, so farmers would need to use the current calendar to work out when to plant