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| Tepe:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on November 13, 2019, 09:31:33 am ---1 milliday = 86.4 seconds 1 hour = 41.666666667 millidays 1 minute = 0.6944444444 millidays 1 second = 11.5740740740 µdays :-- --- End quote --- 1 day = 10 hours = 1,000 minutes = 100,000 seconds |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: Tepe on November 13, 2019, 12:27:50 pm --- --- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on November 13, 2019, 09:31:33 am ---1 milliday = 86.4 seconds 1 hour = 41.666666667 millidays 1 minute = 0.6944444444 millidays 1 second = 11.5740740740 µdays :-- --- End quote --- 1 day = 10 hours = 1,000 minutes = 100,000 seconds --- End quote --- :-+ Good idea! Let's call 0.864 seconds a second from now on! What could possibly go wrong? |
| Tepe:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on November 13, 2019, 12:47:14 pm --- --- Quote from: Tepe on November 13, 2019, 12:27:50 pm ---1 day = 10 hours = 1,000 minutes = 100,000 seconds --- End quote --- :-+ Good idea! Let's call 0.864 seconds a second from now on! What could possibly go wrong? --- End quote --- That system was introduced by decree in France in 1793. For some odd reason it didn't catch on :-// |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: Tepe on November 13, 2019, 01:13:25 pm --- --- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on November 13, 2019, 12:47:14 pm --- --- Quote from: Tepe on November 13, 2019, 12:27:50 pm ---1 day = 10 hours = 1,000 minutes = 100,000 seconds --- End quote --- :-+ Good idea! Let's call 0.864 seconds a second from now on! What could possibly go wrong? --- End quote --- That system was introduced by decree in France in 1793. For some odd reason it didn't catch on :-// --- End quote --- Vive la Révolution française ! They did quite a bunch of silly things there, then. |
| Tepe:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on November 13, 2019, 01:17:51 pm --- --- Quote from: Tepe on November 13, 2019, 01:13:25 pm --- --- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on November 13, 2019, 12:47:14 pm --- --- Quote from: Tepe on November 13, 2019, 12:27:50 pm ---1 day = 10 hours = 1,000 minutes = 100,000 seconds --- End quote --- :-+ Good idea! Let's call 0.864 seconds a second from now on! What could possibly go wrong? --- End quote --- That system was introduced by decree in France in 1793. For some odd reason it didn't catch on :-// --- End quote --- Vive la Révolution française ! They did quite a bunch of silly things there, then. --- End quote --- Like the metric system? :box: Btw, this decimal time system predates the metric system. |
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