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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Disc Compatibility?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 19:39:42 -0500
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On 3/8/2025 12:46 PM, zen cycle wrote:
> On 3/7/2025 3:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 3/7/2025 1:34 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>> While we're at it, get rid of the 24/60/60 system, base it all on 
>>> tens: Ten hours in a day, ten minutes in an hour, ten seconds in a 
>>> minute. A day becomes 1000 seconds long rather than 86400 seconds. We 
>>> already use base ten to divide seconds anyway, so subdividing into 
>>> milli, micro, pico, nano, and femto seconds will be nothing new, we 
>>> would just use them more often (which incidentally would help with 
>>> converting globally to the metric system). Plank time wouldn't need 
>>> to change, just the conversion to seconds:
>>>
>>> https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?plkt
>>
>> I came to agree with that as a smartass teenager.
>>
>> The entire argument gets a glazed look or an eye roll. I convinced not 
>> one person and eventually learned to shut up about time systems.
>>
> 
> +1
> lets just say that isn't a hill I'm ready to die on

Good thing. They tried decimal time during the French Revolution. It 
didn't work for them.


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