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why is the US not Metric
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
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--- 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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