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A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time (metric-time.com)

submitted 4 months ago by original_reader@lemm.ee to c/damnthatsinteresting@lemmy.ml

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[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm not understanding this right. A quick google search shows that there is 86 400 seconds in a day. With metric time, an hour is 10 000 seconds. That means that a day would be 8.6 hours, but on this clock it's 10? How does that work?

[–] nemno@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One metric second != one (conventional) second

[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So it's not using the SI second? That's a bit weird

[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

I guess it could make sense. Reading a bit more and it looks like the second is defined as a fraction (1/86400) of a day. Using 1/100000 wouldn't be tgat crazy. But more than just fucking up all our softwares and time-measuring tools, that would also completely change a lot of physics/chemistry formulas (or constants in these formulas ti be more precise). Interesting thought experiment, but i feel that particularly changing the definition of a second would affect soooo mucchhh.