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Mostly because our time units are still kind of wonky. Unless we went to a metric time system, it's way more convenient to leave our denominator time unit for p
by foxyv 5y ago
Mostly because our time units are still kind of wonky. Unless we went to a metric time system, it's way more convenient to leave our denominator time unit for power generation in hours than to multiply by 3600 hours/second to get kilojoules.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoWe just need to get people to start measuring time in kilo/mega/gigaseconds /s
- foxyv 5y agoOr just adjust the second to 0.864 old-seconds so that there are 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour and 10 hours per day. But we can't manage to agree on DST/STD time so that isn't happening!