Reposting bc I dun goofed before

  • aname@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    You cannot really make all the time units a multiple of 10 to each other as a day, months and a year, for example, are defined by external factors.

    You could perhaps change seconds so a day would be exactly 100k seconds, which would make seconds slightly shorter than they now are but that wouldn’t really change the fact that a year is 365.25 days and that a month is either 27.32 or 29.53 days depending on how you measure it.

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      11 months ago

      Let’s first establish decimal time, then we can talk adding thrusters to Earth to adjust its rotation…

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      11 months ago

      A day is the spin of the Earth and a Year is the orbit of the Earth, but months are completely arbitrary because we (Western world) don’t use Lunar cycles for months.

      There’s no reason we couldn’t have 10 months.

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      11 months ago

      Except a second is also already defined by external factors so making it shorter actually messes up ALL other SI units/compound auxiliary units…

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      11 months ago

      The MS has a solution for that. Days, years, weeks… are not part of the system. They are understood and the conversions accepted, but that’s it.