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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also, when are we going to do 10hrs/day, 100 min/hr and 100s/min?

This is how you collectively give the entire scientific community a simultaneous aneurysm. The amount of work needed to convert measurements based on our current seconds/minutes/hours to your "metric" seconds/minutes/hours would be astronomical.

Also, pretty much everyone already agrees on the current system of time, so why change it? It would just create another metric/imperial or F/C divide and cause conversion mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think we are due another Y2K legacy system replacement global project.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Will this satisfy your request? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It would add another level to time conversion between timezones