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A while ago there was a HN post about a metic time website, I still look at it sometimes: https://metric-time.com/ https://metric-time.com/
by janpmz 3y ago
A while ago there was a HN post about a metic time website, I still look at it sometimes: https://metric-time.com/ https://metric-time.com/
- macintux 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37853181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37853181 (336 comments)
- seszett 3y agoThis website indexes its decimal time on the "standard" 12-hour timezones though, which is fundamentally broken in my opinion. Decimal time was designed before the introduction of fixed timezones, and was relative to Paris in Revolutionary France, so a "correct" decimal clock should either use local time (using the browser's geolocation API), Paris time, or could devise a timezone system based on decimal time. But using the sexagesimal timezones means there will be 0.83 hour difference between Paris and London for example, which is neither practical or meaningful. I have a strong opinion on this because I have implemented decimal time (and decimal calendar) a few times, but of course it's just my opinion. Nobody uses this for actual, current applications that actually require accuracy.
- bmacho 3y agoMe too, I occasionally go there time to time. Also the more I think about metric time, the more I love it.
- aquova 3y agoThat's a neat website, but it did confuse me for a moment. It's titled itself "metric time", but seems to be the same idea as detailed on the "Decimal time" Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time. However, that article warns to not confuse it with its own "Metric time" article, which isn't the same as that metric time website, it's just the SI units related to time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time.