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by bradley13 918 days ago
Proposals like thus are so unrealistic that it's difficult to take then seriously. This one has lots of problems, but perhaps the worst (and yet, easiest to fix) are the millidays. People do not naturally think in thousands. Put a separator in there.

More fundamentally, the "second" is embedded everywhere in culture, science and engineering. Trying to replace the second with microdays is...let's be polite...suboptimal.

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> People do not naturally think in thousands

A lot of us don't have trouble understanding 1,000 millimeters equals 1 meter.

Same here: 1,000 millidays equals 1 day.

I’m somewhat partial towards the centiday (roughly 15 minutes, 14m 24s to be precise).