Honestly it’s not the worst idea, the french have tried something like that during one of their revolutions.
Semi-relatedly, I’m salty they didn’t push for duodecimal numbers and base metric on that, it would incorporate the only good part of imperial system & 12-based time system, not only into measurements but also all other aspects of life.
Then they could make time consistent too, maybe have like 10000 (20736 in decimal) “metric seconds” in a day (which would mean 1 “metric second” ≈ 4 “normal” seconds) and derive stuff from there (e.g. 100 “metric seconds” in a “metric minute”, 10 “metric minutes” in a “metric hour”, 10 “metric hours” in a “metric day”). Would be really quite neat.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‚99:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fuuuuck. That’s the coolest thing I’m in. On on .beat time now!
Strider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I loved it for removing the messy timezones.
I learned with that a lot of other problems are created, hehe.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thanks, I hate that I love it