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by Mindey 1074 days ago
> How about: a shorter second. 100,000 seconds in a 'day'. 1M seconds in a 'week'. and so on.

Yes, that's exactly what you get when dividing Unix secs by 86400 you get 100,000-second-long days, useful on Earth, for now. :)

What would be a non-celestial day?

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A day? Nothing. It doesn't exist. A hundred thousand seconds perhaps would be a useful measure; perhaps not.