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Seconds are the metric unit of time if I understand it correctly. It doesn’t make any sense to say “kiloseconds” or something like that because days are the tim
by snazz 8y ago
Seconds are the metric unit of time if I understand it correctly. It doesn’t make any sense to say “kiloseconds” or something like that because days are the time that the sun is up (ish), months are roughly based on moon cycles, and years are approximately the time it takes us to go around the sun.
It’s also historical and pretty hard to change the basic units of time.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoFWIW, while scientists don't usually use kiloseconds, it's pretty common to see 1.437e4 seconds, rather than 3h 43min 20sec, used as units in time series etc. Similarly one uses milliseconds, femtoseconds, and soforth.