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Subject: Should the world switch to decimal time?
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  • Fabled Legendary Member

They call me graland.

I think it should. Everyone but America already uses metric measurements for everything, so why not for time, too? Instead of having minutes and hours (such inefficiency--60 minutes in an hour? 24 hours in a day? Who came up with this?), everything is a measure of seconds, with different prefixes to denote different units; e.g. kiloseconds and gigaseconds. There's a reason that the world switched to using metric measurements; it's a shame that time is the one measurement that got left out. It would make time-based calculations a lot easier, because you no longer have to convert between hours and minutes; everything is neat simple divisions of ten.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about.

[Edited on 12.15.2012 9:41 AM PST]

  • 12.15.2012 9:38 AM PDT

Posted by: Garem
No, we have better things to spend our money on.

  • 12.15.2012 9:38 AM PDT

Wat

  • 12.15.2012 9:40 AM PDT
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We should use Polar clocks.

  • 12.15.2012 9:42 AM PDT
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They call me graland.

Posted by: Capt Beans
Wat
Pretty straightforward.

The world loves to bash Americans for using the Imperial system, but the world still uses imperial time. I think the world should finish what they started and switch to using decimal time.

  • 12.15.2012 9:58 AM PDT

Never make me angry. I am a Hitman and I can easily find you and take you out.

Even more numbers?

No, just no.

  • 12.15.2012 9:59 AM PDT

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I remember learning about decimal time a few months ago. My answer has always been yes. But the costs worry me.

  • 12.15.2012 10:01 AM PDT
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The Flood's resident metalhead.

24 hour time is good enough (instead of AM and PM).

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  • 12.15.2012 10:02 AM PDT

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Logic: Really? Then please explain how there's violence in third world countries. I guess they're all poor due to the large amount of video games they buy.

da fak did i luk at?

Seriously, that's confusing as -blam!-. That French clock has like 20 million numbers and like 10 hands. 12 numbers and 2 hands is much more simple.

  • 12.15.2012 10:03 AM PDT

I know you are but what am I?

The Flood pretty much missed the point of this thread, lol.

  • 12.15.2012 10:07 AM PDT
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Yes

  • 12.15.2012 10:10 AM PDT

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Posted by: Zon The Great
The Flood pretty much missed the point of this thread, lol.

  • 12.15.2012 10:12 AM PDT