[projektfu]

My countrymen are shockingly dumb. Presented with something rational like 24-hour time, they prefer to not learn and be confused all the time instead of adopting the better way. Unless it's mandatory, such as in military or aviation, then they are happy with it and feel like part of a special in-group.

[pessimizer]

French people did metric, meanwhile they prefer "four-twenty and fourteen" to "ninety-four."

[Jblx2]

>something rational like 24-hour time

Shouldn't the real smarties be using 10-hour days using metric time? 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.

https://timeity.com/metric-time/

[stackghost]

My grandfather gave me a mechanical pocketwatch stopwatch that counts tenths of a minute. Every gradation on the dial is 6 seconds. It's bizarre.

[projektfu]

Clearly we should just use seconds, hectoseconds, kiloseconds and megaseconds, and stop worrying about whether our time lines up with the celestial movements.

[AngryData]

The books Fire Upon the Deep use seconds like that, no hours or days or weeks, just larger 10x multiples of seconds.

[Jblx2]

And here I thought maybe time zero would be the big bang, but alas, that is too celestial, so I guess January 1st, 1970 it is. Or whatever that is in the metric calendar (10 months per year, 10 days/week, 100 days/month)

[perilunar]

It's a bit difficult to use the Big Bang as time zero when the current uncertainty of when it actually happened ±0.02 billion years, which is what, a thousand times longer than all of recorded human history.

We could use the birth date of that jewish prophet, except we'd still be off by a few years. Oh well, in a few centuries no one will care, and we'll just use Unix Epoch.

[twic]

Swatch Internet Time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

[drstewart]

Reddit level post.

If Europeans are so smart, why didn't they commit to metric time which is soon much easier to understand?

[projektfu]

At least 24 hour time is monotonic through the day. Baby steps.

[parineum]

Unless you're talking to someone in a different time zone.

Europe should just have one time zone on a one day clocks divided into decidays and centidays.

[crote]

Don't forget about DST and leap seconds!

[projektfu]

I only use UT1, of course.

[dataflow]

> My countrymen are shockingly dumb. Presented with something rational like 24-hour time

24-hour time is terrible. An analog clock doesn't have that written on it...