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I used to have a watch that gave beats. Totally useless other than annoying friends by constantly converting any meeting time into beats. I think it will take

I used to have a watch that gave beats. Totally useless other than annoying friends by constantly converting any meeting time into beats. I think it will take colonising other planets before the world is ready for a new unit of time and at that point the whole concept of 'day' is kind of out the window.

cpeterso 15y ago
Colonizers on new planets will probably still use minutes and hours because that's what they're used to culturally. Especially if they have to collaborate with people on Earth. This Wikipedia artile about timekeeping on Mars is fun reading. The Mars rover operation teams used work schedules (and watches!) based on Martian time because they need to be available when the rover had daylight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars
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