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Everyone in these comments appear to be missing the point of the article. The author is not trying to redefine the second or use different units. The point of
by gilgoomesh 13y ago
Everyone in these comments appear to be missing the point of the article. The author is not trying to redefine the second or use different units.
The point of the article is:
> aimed to eliminate both minutes and hours
The author is simply trying to track their day using nothing but seconds. The current definition of the second. The author uses the "myria" prefix to mean 10,000 (instead of kilo or hecto) but it's otherwise simply using seconds.
Why use the second? Because it is the SI unit for time. It is the unit that all scientific measurements use but we rarely use it to schedule our lives. It's an experiment, nothing more.
- yefim 13y agoThat's exactly my point! Thank you for reading and understanding!
- garysweaver 13y agoMetric time is fun, but why not take it a step further and abandon the metric system, which places too much emphasis on base 10? We used the (21 cm) hydrogen line in the Pioneer plaque; if we don't use metric with our potential cosmic neighbors, isn't that a sign we should reconsider its usage?
- autodidakto 13y agoNo one is missing the point; we're all just quickly realizing that counting only in seconds isn't an improvement. Nonetheless, kudos to the author. Time keeping sucks.