The whole world uses this standard though, so it's not causing any confusion. 12 and 60 are just handy numbers.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Tell me why they're handy, other than it's what we know? I suppose it's easy for me to say this cos I come from a country that fairly recently moved away from the imperial system, and looking back, it was bloody daft. It's an unpopular opinion yes, but logically, using factors of 10 makes far more sense than 12s and 60s. I don't think that's an unfair thing to say.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

10 is divisible by 2 and 5. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6. 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Interesting perspective!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's why 12 is used with imperial units like 12 inches to the foot, too, by the way. I'm certainly not saying it's better than the metric system, but it's not as illogical as people used to metric think.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think what throws people off is more the inconsistency, like a foot is 12 inches, fine, but then a yard is 3 feet, and a mile is 1760 yards. It just seems a bit random lol.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

divide 10 by 3 or 4 divide 12 by 3 or 4 *your welcome*

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why not? Everything else is. It would hard to implement but so much better in the long term.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'm not sure that's as easy of a transition as you think. The reason so much of the world is using decimals is because decimal system is base 10 (1.000 is tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc.) and that works for the metric system. Time is based on that * a year is 365 1/4 days * a day is 23 hours 56 minutes * an hour is 60 minutes * a minute is 60 seconds So either the decimals used for time couldn't be base 10, or we would have to ditch the entire time keeping method that's been used for hundreds of years and everyone is intimately familiar with

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think we could get it to 10 hours per day, maybe split into 100, then 100 again. I agree with 365 days though, we can't really change the speed of our orbit around the sun…

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah but what do we achieve by making that change besides being able to start our captain's logs with stardates?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'm not saying it would be easy

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You're thusly suggesting we do something that is inconvenient, for basically no benefit. This isn't like switching from Imperial to metric, everybody already agrees on how time is measured.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

OP is clearly smarter than the thousands (millions) of mathematicians who came before.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

When referring to a third of an hour, "I'll be there in 3.333333333" just doesn't sound as good as "I'll be there in 20" (Assuming your system would be: 1h=10min=100s)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I read the title as "time should be fully decriminalized"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Because time is a construct and doesn't matter, whereas linear measurement is tangible.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I like this answer a lot

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I do what I can.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A lot of your older electronics would not work quite correctly.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

you mean like 12.5 minutes? or 3.75 hours?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In the least disrespectful way possible, do you know why time is split into numbers like 12,24,60?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It was the Babylonians who introduced it, no? Something to do with the Zodiacs.

by Anonymous 1 year ago