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What if instead we were to go with non-24-hour days? We could fix even more problems with such a system, like: * Days starting at the same hour:minute all the
by NoMoreNicksLeft 4y ago
What if instead we were to go with non-24-hour days? We could fix even more problems with such a system, like:
* Days starting at the same hour:minute all the time
* The current impossibility of a decimal clock. We're constantly told how using base-10 makes math so much easier, who wouldn't want a day being 10 hours long and a week 10 days long? If the answer is 168, you've screwed up somewhere
* The conceit that ancient deities like Apollo and Ra are so important that even after we've abandoned those religions, we must continue to allow our calendars revolve around their golden chariots. I say "no more!", we will spurn the astronomical bodies as well
* The relegation of agriculture to the primitive past, where it belongs. I only eat Hot Pockets anyway. The chicken milkers and tomato tree people can go live in yurts or something if they believe caveman calendars are important
* The ability to insert special 5-minute days into the calendar in emergencies, like when I have a new game on pre-order that is scheduled to come out in 60 days' time. We could easily reduce that to an effective 3 hours or so
- digging 4y agoSounds fun. But the day is evenly divided already, so there's less pressure to change it.