One might also recall the late Gregory Bateson's reiteration that "number and quantity are not the same thing - you can have 5 oranges but you can never have 5

One might also recall the late Gregory Bateson's reiteration that "number and quantity are not the same thing - you can have 5 oranges but you can never have 5 gallons of water" [0] Seconds are numbers; calendrical units are quantities. [0] Bateson was, in some ways, anticipating the divide between the digital and analog worlds.