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I'm really fascinated by such ideas. However, it's just academic as time is so much baked into physical devices (watches, clocks, ...) so this will most probabl
by mo_42 3y ago
I'm really fascinated by such ideas. However, it's just academic as time is so much baked into physical devices (watches, clocks, ...) so this will most probably never happen.
I'd rather start redoing the calendar. It doesn't need to be metric but the different lengths of the months (and the naming Oct. should be 8 not 10?) could be reworked.
- julienpalard 3y agoYes. Decimal time almost happened in France during the revolution, but fixing all the clocks was impossible so people kept their standard clocks, so they kept the old habit...
- pndy 3y agoThere are ideas of redesigning calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry454 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry454 and ideas for time keeping on other planets like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_calendar https://ops-alaska.com/time/gangale_mst/abstract.htm https://ops-alaska.com/time/gangale_mst/abstract.htm
- SulphurCrested 3y agoOctober used to be the 8th month (and September, November and December the 7th, 9th and 10th) because March was the first month of the year.
- bloopernova 3y agoHave you seen this unix time clock? https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/ https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/