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In the sciences the metric system is used. It's used everywhere except in the United States and should be because it's a far easier system to use than any other around. But I have never heard of a metric time system. It would only seem logical to have one. I was just wondering if there was ever an attempt to create a system or if an obscure system does exist.
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im quite fine with a 60 seconds in a minute 60 minutes in an hour 24 hours in a day system. The time is already universal so i wouldnt change it, the united states however should switch to metrics it is a much easier system. all you need to know are your tens.
yeah, i don't think that using 10s and stuff in time would be beneficial. I'm already too used to using 60 seconds and 60 minutes. But, if we would switch to the metric system, it would make things much more simple. I still don't even know how many cups are in a gallon or how many ounces are in a quart. It's just too much.
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agreed. There was a push to make the U.S. go metric a while back, but it failed. I wonder why-- the American Government isn't stubborn, arrogant, extremely conservative, or lacking common sense, now is it!?! :wacko:
However, for time, I think that's pretty much set in stone. Imagine replacing every clock....I can barely make it anywhere on time as it is, I would be lost....
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base 60 is either from Sumeria or the Aztec Cultures. I can't remember which
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actually the United States is supposed to be on Metrics but we never made the transition yet.
Sumerians counted in 6's.
the time system is based on natural rhythms not traditions.
when you divide the day it divides naturally into two twelve hour cycles. you couldn't convert it into tens. well... you could but you would have to make up entirely new measurements of time. a second would have no longer represent the same period, neither would a minute or an hour. imagine a second not being a second. that's fucked up.
consider that there are 1440 minutes in a day. to divide that into tens you would have to divide only once, creating ten periods in the day or ten 'new' hours. each of these 'newhours' containing 144 minutes. in order to further divide the 'newhours' into 'newminutes' you would have to break up the unit of time called a minute leaving 14.4 'oldminutes' for every 'newminute' since 14.4om=1nm when you divide again into smaller units based on 100 ((14.1*60)/100) each new second would acutally be 8.64 old seconds. this would probably lead people to need to break again into tens because 8.64 seconds is a long time for the smallest measurement. leading to a final second that is .864 old seconds.
so as you can see you would not only have to redefine measurement of time but add a whole new division in time. as you can also see much more complex. as you can also i'm going to fucking kill myself now because i just wrote that out and my brain is now completely fucked.
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There are at least two threads on this already. They are both in theory somewhere. I am sure that some kind soul will come and post the links to them, but I can't be bothered finding them at the moment.
Metric time has been invented although it hasn't been applied at all, that requires a qualitative change in society usually e.g. The metric system and modern liberalism are the lasting effects of the French Revolution, new cyrillic characters and modified Chinese characters are products of the Russian and Chinese revolutions respectively, such seemingly minor changes require social earthquakes to produce them.
Internet time was invented by Swatch (or maybe it was Casio), it didn't take off really, but I would like it too so you could know just exactly when something is happening on the internet. It worked on a metric-like system of 2000 I believe.
Metric time, personally, doesn't seem as appealing as the metric system of mesurement, which American have rejected or been apprehensive about, bar their love-affair with the mesurement 9 millimetres
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all right I am kind enough to find at least one.
http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...&hl=metric+time
Here is a thread on metric v imperial not just time.
http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...&f=8&t=7768&hl=
But I can't find the other thread. It had basicly my reasons for changing from wanting to change the time system to not wanting (except for the week). Try and find it.
I thought that too and in retrospect it probably would cause more work than its worth. Perhaps when we setle a new planet it will be more logical to come up with a 10 base time system anyway here was my post for a 10 base time system.
http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...=ST&f=6&t=18138
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I believe it is because it would cost too much to do so. That's what I have been told anyway.
I suppose it would mean one less war!
I believe the state of Arizona changed their highway signs into metric measurements in anticipation of the whole country converting to the metric system. I believe this occured in the 1960's and the signs are still in metric measurements today.
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What the hell would you use that for?
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It is Swatch, and I use to use it a lot. The thing with Internet Time is there are no time zones with internet time. Internet time looks like this @515. So if Ian says he will meet me online to chat at @1210 I know my @1210 is exactly the same as his. Essentially it was made because time zones never really had any effect on most people's daily lives. With the internet and all of us talking with each other in different time zones, they have more of an effect. I have never seen GMT used much prior to the internet, but now I almost use it daily.
When internet time came out in 1998 I think, it caught on for about 6 months, a lot of people used it, that I knew of, but since a majority of people did not want to, it died.
Home page for Internet Time at Swatch
As some of my friends and I have talked about, time zones boundries are sometimes political, this removes all borders and boundries.
CNN article in 1999 about Internet Time
Time unit conversions
Beat Unit Conversion Unit Beat Conversion
1 .beat = 0.001 day 1 day = 1000 .beats
1 .beat = 0.024 hours 1 hour = 41.666 .beats
1 .beat = 1.44 minutes 1 minute = 0.6944 .beats
1 .beat = 86.4 seconds 1 second = 0.01157 .beats
Internet Time is made up of Beats instead of seconds. I owned an Internet Time watch, I lost at a party.
After the che-lives server switch to the new board, I worked for a little while to figure out how to put Internet Time as well as the GMT time on it.
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what's this love-affair I apparently have? If I wanted a generalization, I would have said that Canadians have a love affair with sodomy and hockey, and have no culture besides what they copy from america. But I didn'tOriginally posted by Ian Rocks@Oct 28 2003, 05:15 AM
bar their love-affair with the mesurement 9 millimetres
just so you know, it sucks to have generalizations applied to americans. I happen to love canucks, eh
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chillOriginally posted by Mr Mojo Risin'+Nov 2 2003, 02:18 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mr Mojo Risin' @ Nov 2 2003, 02:18 AM)what's this love-affair I apparently have? If I wanted a generalization, I would have said that Canadians have a love affair with sodomy and hockey, and have no culture besides what they copy from america. But I didn't@Oct 28 2003, 05:15 AM
bar their love-affair with the mesurement 9 millimetres
just so you know, it sucks to have generalizations applied to americans. I happen to love canucks, eh [/b]
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Are you saying none of this ever happened or that the signs still aren't there. I'm almost sure that i had read somewhere that one state had metic measurements on road signs. Is there any state that has metric signs that anyone knows about?
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