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A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time (metric-time.com)
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What do you think?

You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

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[-] nemno@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

One metric second != one (conventional) second

[-] CodeGameEat@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] CodeGameEat@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 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.

this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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Damn, that's interesting!

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