Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frank Krygowski Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Disc Compatibility? Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 19:39:42 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: frkrygow@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:40:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d8f1d023cee5e0734b04af55b60cc3c7"; logging-data="426715"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/UQvSCjyI6+RNBI9CvrPs43/S5HbbdclA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:2caC/AeenosUUSxYXpGM9XvygME= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US 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. -- - Frank Krygowski