This made me think of time in science fiction, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interstellar_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deep

This made me think of time in science fiction, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interstellar_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste.... On a long enough horizon, I take it as a foregone conclusion that simple metric measurements will become standard.