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how come time isn't in metric?
- Thread starter Subpar Spatula
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You can't eliminate leap years because the earth rotates 365.25 times on its axis in one year. There is nothing you can do with time to remove that.
Man...what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Reviewing it, no year is not quite right, while those days outside of the year as in they don't belong to the 12 months, they are still considered part of the previous year.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Geographical locations are also measured in our standard time.
That goes way back to the Greeks, and it works. Your GPS is measuring space in
degrees, minutes and seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system
Going metric would be so much complicated.
That goes way back to the Greeks, and it works. Your GPS is measuring space in
degrees, minutes and seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system
Going metric would be so much complicated.
Ah, one of the last good Simpsons episodes before everything completely went to hell.
Because it's impossible. I'm going to focus on leap year here.
So, a day is when the earth makes a (little over one) revolution around its axis.
A year is when the earth makes one revolution around the sun.
Now these two things are not in sync, calendar year and a year are not the same ting. In 365 days the earth is a little short from completing its orbital period and 366 days is a little over it. The current leap year system gives a good enough approximation to keep the calendar years somewhat in their right places.
If the time intervals were purely based on days, the months and years would slowly move out of place - i.e. december being at the time of harvest. If the time intervals were based on the orbital period, the times would go awry.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Time is more fucked up than space
And the funny thing is, the Simpsons pics are always from the first 10 seasons. Covered a hell of a lot of ground in those glory years.
Daffy Duck
Member
Damn millenials trying to ruin time now.
I will tear the world apart to protect my comfort zone
tonysidaway
Member
It's actually a kludge in any calendar system. Leap years are the way we adjust for the mismatch in the Gregorian calendar. Other calendars have different kludges. None of them fit exactly because the year isn't a whole number of days.
tonysidaway
Member
Used interchangeably with AM/PM here in the UK. It's particularly popular in transport timetables. Colloquial usage is still mostly AM/PM and we mentally adjust. The fact that this is possible suggests to me that there wasn't a lot wrong with AM/PM in the first place, but I prefer to use 24 hour clock for display and for writing.
tonysidaway
Member
The "sec" in parsec is a second of arc (1/3600 degree) not a unit of time.
In the US, 24hour is associated with the military primarily and people call it "military time".
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
... 15, 20, 30
... 20, 25, 50
But still I think 25 and 50 are more intuitive as a quarter and a half as opposed to 15 and 30.
What I want to see is an timekeeping scale with prime numbers. 59 minutes in an hour, 23 hours in a day because fuck you that's why.
Quoted for truth.
So if we were to engineer a base system for ease of use, Base 60 might be a bit much though, as many more unique numbers are needed to be memorized.
10 - {1, 2, 5, 10} rr = 0.4
12 - {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12} rr = 0.5
60 - {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60} rr = 0.2
So in terms of a factors to integer ratio, 60 isn't great as a base system, while base 12 has the highest return out of the three.
I am sure there is a set with the highest ratio, but I need to go to work and can't focus on this right now.
Always-honest
Banned
Time is fine. Just make the rest metric.
thecouncil
Banned
looks to be 80 past 1.
HazySaiyan
Banned
Would have been disappointed if this wasn't in here.
llien
Banned
Did they?
They in here just killing time.
tonysidaway
Member
One day, every discussion on the internet will converge into a gigantic orgy of cat pictures and Simpsons pictures. The internet will be over.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Really let down this wasn't the first reply.
QuicheFontaine
Member
To line up with eggs, which also come in dozens. So you can have a fried egg on your weetabix every morning.
I always found that measurement rather useless because it doesn't subdivide further (or at least clocks like that in PSO don't show smaller increments). Can't see how long until the beat counter increases, can't get a feeling for how long a beat is...
Easy, just take a meter stick and stick out your thumb, stick your index finger out perpendicular to that and your middle finger perpendicular to the other two. Now hold the meter stick perpendicular to all three fingers and it shows you how long a meter in the time dimension is.
tonysidaway
Member
The original plan to follow the Fibonacci sequence proved impractical.
Wow imagine being on the internet and thinking that someone doesn't know what a leap year is.