Time to double down on the metric system
In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.
Let's move to metric time!
1000 milliseconds in a second
100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
100 hours in a day
100 days in a month
100 months in a year.
We'd be so young!
[EDIT] Guys, I thought it was obvious I was saying this in jest... My b
Starting from 1 year being 365 days
1 month would be the equivalent of 3.65 days
1 day would be 52.5 minutes
1 hour would be 31.5 seconds
1 minute would be 0.3 seconds
1 second would be 3 milliseconds
1 millisecond would be 3 nanoseconds
The French actually tried it, here's the Wikipedia article.
A more reasonable thing to do is something like Swatch Internet Time, you get 1000 ".beats" in a day with no time zones. Beyond a day it might not be too helpful to keep decimal, there will be 365+fraction days a year no matter how you measure it.
I think this is what Phantasy Star Online used back in the day!
Yeah, unfortunately for time we're tied to space-stuff. A day will always be useful, so will a year. A lunar month is not as useful as it once was, probably not necessary as a primary unit.
Well, if you're on Earth, anyway.
Seconds are already an SI unit. We'd have to redo every textbook, and overcome centuries of work.
One day is a Dec, 10 Decs in a Wec, 10 Wecs in a Mec and 100 Mecs in a Yec. Your days are split into Ceti-decs and Micro-decs!
It's so unhinged, I love it. Need to write a calendar app and clock for it.
Lemmy is serious business!
[French revolution intensifies]
Unfortunately with dates you also want to incorporate the natural cycles of the earth and sun, which not only aren't decimal but usually incommensurable, so it's a hard thing to do. The French just had a block of their calendar that didn't count as "real" days IIRC.
If we start seriously going to space, doing everything by Unix epoch (count of seconds since the 60's ended) would make sense, and planning your day might well go by kiloseconds. Someone on here suggested giving up on standardised time zones and just doing everything long-distance that way even on Earth, which grew on me as an idea.
Oh man, you just reminded me of the incoming Epochalypse... A tangent to what you're talking about but something that I feel isn't being taken seriously enough.
I suppose we still have just over 13.5 years, but we have so much more computerized stuff now than we did in the 90s, and how many things do we own with clocks that can't be updated? Interesting times ahead.
Indeed. 64-bit Linux always used 64-bit times, but 32-bit was only updated to it in 2020, and who knows what baremetal embedded systems are doing. A lot of stuff is going to reach EOL by 2038 anyway, but I'm sure there will be people freaking out because their shitty old oven won't turn on, or even their furnace! Anything that's actually professionally maintained will be easier.
Didn't downvote but TPO my dude