+713 How weird would it be to have another way to measure time? For example, something based on tens called chronos, with 100 chronos in a day, each broken into 100 mikros. Imagine the confusion: "What time is it over there?" "Fifty sixty-nine." "...what?" "Oh, sorry, I'm using chronos, not hours. It's 12:10." amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I put too much work into this sad

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think it brilliant!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You know what else is brilliant? Proper grammar.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You don't have to a jerk about it

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Omg I did the math so wrong. 12:10pm in chronos would be about 50 chronos and 69.4 mikros. If I add another denomination of mikros in 100, it would be 69 mikros and 40 of those. But now I'm rambling.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hehehheheheheh 69

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, 12:10 would be 50 chronos and 16.67 mikros, how could it be 69.4/100 if 10 minutes is less than half an hour?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're acting like 1 chronos is equal to one hour. This is not true. Since an hour is one-twelfth of a day, and 1 chronos is one-hundredth of a day,an hour is equal to about four-and-a-sixth chronos (4.16666). 69 mikros is well below the halfway mark. Actually, the correct conversion of 12:10 into the chronos system would be: 12.16666/24 = x/100 24x = 1216.66666 x = 50.6944417 Which is 50 chronos, 69 mikros, and approximately 44 vals (according to Anthony's clock). *shines Jew badge*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My head hurts so bad right now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

An hour isn't a twelfth of a day. I WIN THIS ARGUMENT (But yeah you're right)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oops. Everything else is right, though. Maybe it's not too late? *twenty-fourth

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is probably how people felt when the metric system first started getting popular.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I should make a clock that measures in //chronos// and just slowly integrate it into society.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Do it. I've always thought time should be measured based on tens

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But idk how I'd make such a clock :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Get someone to write a program and hook it up to a display screen? I'm probably over simplifying it by a lot.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think anyone would write a program for me (cry2)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The problem I can think of is the time zones. The world is 24 time zones so instead of simply adding a number to one side of the clock you'd have to add numbers to both sides of the clock, making it more confusing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If I knew how, and Anthony's gloriousness didn't beat me to it, I would. Mostly because this system makes so much more sense. And for the glory.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Analog. Just paint over the numbers

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Chronos? The god of time? Dude, that makes way too much sense. You should troll the world and call it something nonsensical like a bananahead. Or a trolkinonigan. Or a favvkes. Whoa, favvkes has a nice ring to it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is the God Chronos: http://ctrlv.in/45021 O.O

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's almost as sexy as the RockClock up there.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THAT'S SATURN YOU FOOL. </art geek>

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Saturn is the Roman Chronos, you fool

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Herp derp that's from Francisco Goya's painting Saturn Devouring his Children. And I am aware that Saturn is Cronos' Roman forn

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant they're the same deity, in the same way that SemiColin and your real name (Colin?) refer to the same person, so you can't scold someone for calling him by his other name.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Meet me at the movie at 10:31 Chronos time" "What the fuck?"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

2:28am is a weird time for a movie hmm

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't you mean the customary system? The metric system has been around forever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant when the metric system first started replacing the Imperial system in most European countries (which I think was sometime during the 1970s).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How would it be weird? We'd get used to it, easily. Isn't the sexagesimal system complicated and weird using that same logic? I guess the reply to that is that we're used to it, which brings back my point.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It would be weird to have more than one is what I meant, because of the confusion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Again, we'd get used to it and it would become routine. We have the 24 hour clocks and the 12 hour clocks, we got used to them and can understand both. We have dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy and yyyy-mm-dd formats and we're used to all of them working fine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't be that guy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What guy?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The "how would that be weird? we wouldn't know better, we'd be used to it, blah blah, etc." guy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ah, sorry for aplying logic and previous real life examples to this situation.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't throw sarcasm at me. It's annoying that for almost every hypothetical post, someone uses the same (irrelevant) argument.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not every post, just posts like these. Anyway, you're attacking ME instead of the argument I said—great example of ad hominem.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I said "almost every hypothetical post," not "every post." And fine, I'll attack your argument: It's irrelevant that we would be "used to it" if that were the case, because the fact is it's //not// the case, and from where we stand (in the world as we know it, with sexagesimal time), it does seem weird because it is not what we know.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It wouldn't work anyway. How many chronos would be one week, and if we had 10 chronos in one week (because everything would be based on 10) How many days of weekend would we have? Choosing too much would impact the economy negatively and too little would overstress people. I like overthinking things :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's still 100 chronos per rotation of the earth (day), so a year would still be based on the orbit around the sun, so 365 days, which would be 36,500 chronos. Really, the lengths of the months could be kept the same if we wanted, because if we tried to divide a year into 10, each month would become 36.5 days, which is weird, so the lengths of months are the same, the lengths of weeks are the same. One week would then be 700 chronos.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Theoretically, if we wanted to continue the mulitples of ten, ten months in a year would mean alternating months of 36 and 37 days, just like our current months alternate 29, 30, and 31 days. Then we could change weeks into being 10 days too, so that there are almost four weeks in a month and 1000 chronos in a week. The weeks do not have to match the month length exactly. The only thing is that our current months are roughly based off the lunar cycle, so the new system would not match as well. And I'm going way too much into this...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, it's not irrelevant, in fact. People used to think that the fact that the world is not flat is weird; people used to think that the fact that the Americas exist is weird; people used to think that the fact that there was time and a sexagesimal code was weird; people used to think that the fact that things fall for a reason was weird... Now it's not. After a while of this time system of yours was put into the mainstream masses, and in the hypotheical case it was even accepted as one and by the majority, people would accept it and no one would think it's "weird" when everyone understands it and is used to it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes, but my post isn't stating, in essence, "If this was how things were, it would be weird." It's stating, more accurately, "It's weird to imagine another way to measure time, amirite?"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

24 hour clocks and 12 hour clocks still have 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. Same with the dates that use the same measurements of time, but just present them in a different order

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why is there a "What if ____" group and a Hypotheticals group? What's the difference?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Idk man. I made the Hypotheticals group though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Too...much...math... My brain is too retarded to comprehend.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Unrelated, but I don't know where else to ask: Does anyone else think the amirite? guy's beard makes him look like The Silence?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ha,YES.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

me 5 seconds ago: What beard? me now: Holy crap! He has a beard. Impressive. y

by Anonymous 13 years ago

it's only 9 days into November. Must be a fake wary

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But in the UK it's 10 days into November making it much more plausible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Give him a yamaka and peyes, and he would look like a Hiscidic Jew.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm in favor of metric time. I freak people out enough at my school b/c I use metric, not imperial.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In b4 big debate about whether this is plausable or not troll

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Too late.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

troll!!!!!!!!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nice cover. smirk

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...has there seriously been no jokes about how you used sixty nine? I am disappoint. Oh well. LOL ROCKY I SEE HOW YOU SUBLIMINALLY USED 69 SO WE WANNA GO OUT AND HAVE SEX I SEE WUT U DID hehe

by Anonymous 13 years ago

PFFT. I actually chose 12:10 at random and when I translated it, it turned into that :$ Now that I think about it, we should figure out what 69:69:69 is in standard time :o

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Approximately 4:44 p.m., or 16:44 army time.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Your calculations are correct. I gave up after I got 16 hours, 43.536 mins," etc.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This would be so much easier when doing dimensional analysis.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Rainbow Dash can clear the sky in 116 vals flat.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And I said, "Oatmeal, are you crazy?" She'll never leave Ponyville hanging.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

okay i come back 5 minutes later and you guys are already having a debate

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Apparently, and this was only very briefly mentioned in Physics class, at one point scientists attempted to convert time that would work better with the metric system of measurement...but apparently people couldn't handle it at all. Either way, time, metres, gravitational constants, it's all made up anyways.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Whoa whoa. Time isn't made up, just the ways we measure it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha yeah you're right. But when people identify time as seconds, hours, days, etc...and those are just ways of measuring it... yes time exists-- but as you said, the ways we measure it are made up

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hehe He said sixty-nine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Things longer than Kim Kardashian's marriage: 8000 chronos.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Question: should 8000 chronos be 8 kilochronos...? hmm In the same vein, one day would be a hectochronos.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My head hurts.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Since you're a gay guy, it should be called homochronos.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Since that made no sense, you should be shut the fuck up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow this is alittle mind boggleing but good concept... And the people who did all the math up there have nooo lives

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ARE YOU SAYING I HAVE NO LIFE?! Because... Anyone could've told you that :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ahaha yes ... Math must fill that void you have in your life most people fill with love... And friendship....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't be ridiculous.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

To late.... Rocky a young boy of twelve was sitting home alone when he realized he really had no one in his life... He was contemplating suicide when he grabbed pills and threw them down on the counter... He went to put them in him mouth but then decided to count them... He spent all night crying and counting things around his house... Ceiling tiles... Doors...windows... And cabinets... Until finally he fell into a deep dreamless sleep... He awoke the next morning and realized he was a new boy... He realized that he really didn't need any friends or family all he needed was math... He then spent the rest of his life contemplating math related topics no one could never imagined could be contemplated before this time

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think you're the one who needs help.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow.. I am hurt

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There, there. In a few chronos' time, the wound will heal.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*sniffle* Thank's Rocky

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ever imagine*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We should start using this as the official time of amirite instead of BST.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We should use American time because America is number one!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

All this math shit went straight over my head, but I am 100% determined to keep reading and figure it out so I can sound smart when I mention this to someone. They will be like "dayyuumm you a smart cookie" and I'll be like "hell yea bitch" ...actually I'd sound less smart if i say that so I'll just keep with "why yes, yes sir/ma'am I am. Thank you."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Damn now that I understand this time I will sub-consciously say this in real life

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hmmm.....army time= kind of a different system of time than one used....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or instead of measuring long periods of time in months(28-31 days) we measured them in Kardashians(72 days)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What about time zones?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Have ten time zones?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everytime I read 'chronos' I think of the password from 'The Incredibles' ('kronos') and my brain won't focus on the rest of the post...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

omg so much lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fun fact: 11:11 in chronos is approximately 2:45am standard time.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WHAT?! math.... No wonder I have no idea what I just read.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So those do exist? Someone please reply!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What exists?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

chronos

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is now!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago