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I once tried to imagine a metric time system, with a deciday of 14.4 minutes. I realized that it would never catch on, because a half-hour TV show would have t
by mark-r 7y ago
I once tried to imagine a metric time system, with a deciday of 14.4 minutes. I realized that it would never catch on, because a half-hour TV show would have to be cut to 28.8 minutes losing at least 2 commercials.
- jonas21 7y agoThey actually tried this, during the French Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar It didn't catch on then either.
- zokier 7y agoAnd again in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
- zokier 7y ago14.4 minutes is a centiday btw. For decimal time I think milliday is the most reasonable unit, being very close to conventional minute. In practice Mars might be the best opportunity for enacting decimal time, because Earth based units would be bit awkward on Mars.
- mark-r 7y agoThanks for the correction.