My countrymen are shockingly dumb. Presented with something rational like 24-hour time, they prefer to not learn and be confused all the time instead of adopting the better way. Unless it's mandatory, such as in military or aviation, then they are happy with it and feel like part of a special in-group.

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Jblx2 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>something rational like 24-hour time

Shouldn't the real smarties be using 10-hour days using metric time? 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.

https://timeity.com/metric-time/

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projektfu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Clearly we should just use seconds, hectoseconds, kiloseconds and megaseconds, and stop worrying about whether our time lines up with the celestial movements.

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Jblx2 an hour ago | parent [-]

And here I thought maybe time zero would be the big bang, but alas, that is too celestial, so I guess January 1st, 1970 it is. Or whatever that is in the metric calendar (10 months per year, 10 days/week, 100 days/month)

	▲	perilunar 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's a bit difficult to use the Big Bang as time zero when the current uncertainty of when it actually happened ±0.02 billion years, which is what, a thousand times longer than all of recorded human history. We could use the birth date of that jewish prophet, except we'd still be off by a few years. Oh well, in a few centuries no one will care, and we'll just use Unix Epoch.

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stackghost an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

My grandfather gave me a mechanical pocketwatch stopwatch that counts tenths of a minute. Every gradation on the dial is 6 seconds. It's bizarre.

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drstewart an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Reddit level post.

If Europeans are so smart, why didn't they commit to metric time which is soon much easier to understand?

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projektfu an hour ago | parent [-]

At least 24 hour time is monotonic through the day. Baby steps.

	▲	parineum an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Unless you're talking to someone in a different time zone. Europe should just have one time zone on a one day clocks divided into decidays and centidays.