What do you think?

You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

13 points

Not bad, but I prefer Swatch Internet Time

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Me too. If the standards wouldn’t be held by a private company.

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7 points

I think you meant to link decimal time per Wikipedia?

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No. But they are so similar, I’d be happy to adopt either. In fact, decimal time was actually used briefly.

Here is the link you wanted:

Wikipedia: Decimal Time

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4 points

Then the wikipedia is wrong? Because what the website you linked calls metric time Wikipedia calls decimal

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I feel like I’m going crazy at moments like this.

Wikipedia on Metric Time:

The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples and submultiples with metric prefixes such as kiloseconds and milliseconds.

Edit: Attention that this is the SI second, not a decimal second

Wikipedia on Decimal Time:

This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds

metric-time.com :

With metric time the day is broken into 10 hours.
A metric hour is broken into 100 minutes.
A metric minute is broken into 100 seconds.

So either Wikipedia is wrong or the website.

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37 points

As someone who has written a ridiculous amount of code that deals with date and time, I support this 100%.

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28 points

Great! Now you’ll not only need to convert between timezones but also between metric and standard time.

Also the respective intervals adjusted by leap days and leap seconds will be different!

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5 points

A friend once mused that “wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.” It’s one of the reasons I stopped being a watch guy (but more because I checked it compulsively but didn’t know what time it was when a coworker saw me check and ask the time).

Anyway, I prefer to try not to keep track of the time unless I need to be somewhere.

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9 points

If you want to go the middle way, you could consider a one-hand watch.

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28 points

I could get used to that, it’s actually a great idea. Though probably impossible to implement due to inertia, at least currently.

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The proof that it is probably not possible ever is that metric time was already adopted during the French Revolution, during the period when they were metricising everything else, and even they decided that it wasn’t worthwhile.

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Damn, that's interesting!

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