Comment on Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why
cynar@lemmy.world 1 year agoUnfortunately, there is no easy way to decimalise time for human use. If you make it useful for humans, it doesn’t sync well to a day. If you make it sync to a day, the resulting units are awkward for the human mind.
Amusingly, for computers, time is decimalised! UTC is a fully metric time. It’s just simpler to constantly remap to and from UTC to a user’s time, than to train the user to use UTC.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
For computers, Unix time is in binary. But yes.
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The divisibility of 60 is useful, too. It has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (plus any combination of the above) as factors making dividing time a relatively simple operation.