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People like to shit on the imperial measurements for its inconsistensies, but why is it we have a similarly dogshit one for measuring time? (lemmygrad.ml)
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For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It's like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet...

Edit: just to clarify, I'm more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

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[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

12 hours in half a day is fine for me. 12 can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters and sixths. That's useful for planning out a day. Time is one of the applications where I don't have a complaint about using base 12.

[–] Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly why there are 12 months and 24h a day, for easy divisions.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I think the 12 months thing is more due to the cycle of the moon being about 12 per year right?

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