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Earth got an update. What small features have been improved, added or fixed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FatTony@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'll start as off with: Sound speed fix, sound now travels the same speed as light.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Rotation now set to "standard" 24 hours exactly. No more wonky 23.99873 hours screwing up automated functions every 12 years.

[-] menturi@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

And a year is exactly 360 days. Or maybe 364 so there are a perfect 52 weeks in the year.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not take this opportunity to make time base 10 for all meaningful measures?

100 weeks a year. 10 months wherein the moon orbits once. 10 hours per day.

Or even just base 2. I guess it probably matters most that planetary bodies have evenly divisible periods and we can figure out the rest.

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