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[-] yeehaw_cosmonaut@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

You mean base-10? My totally unrealistic pipe dream would be to have the world switch to base-12.

[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I mean something like 1 day = 10 hours = 1 000 minutes = 100 000 seconds (currently 86 400 seconds so a second would only get slightly faster).

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds

[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, nice! It's funny how it's the same as the one I just made up which further proves that it simply makes sense.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah. I think if someone had a sensible method for how we could switch from one to the other with minimal impact, it might work.

What would very difficult for me would be the recalibration of my internal clock. Knowing a second is slightly shorter, and a minute is longer, and an hour is much longer, would be hell for a while.

Unfortunately I think something that's pretty hard coded into the society at this point is that a day should be able to divide by so we end up with the 8hr work, 8 hr rest, 8 hr sleep. I'd be interested in a 30hr day over a 10 hr day. But that one doesn't make much sense either since it misses the mark on bringing tim fully into the 10 base metric system, but still has all the same troubles you'd encounter for getting people to switch.

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