[Bobboau]

ever sence early grade school I always disliked the timeing system we have, with 24 hours in a divided into two seperate 12 hour chuncks,each hour being 60 minutes wich is made of 60 seconds, this makes math involved with time very very messy, so I developed what I now call a metric timescale.

in the metric time scale time is still based on the rotation of the earth, one day is one rotation of the planet, 24 standard hours, but, it is not divided into 24 hours, it is divided into 10 hours, each of these 'metric hours' would be 2.4 times the length of a standard hour, and every metric minute would be 1/100th the length of a metric hour, and each metric second would be 1/100th a metric miinute, makeing the metric second roughly .864 the time of a standard second.
the end result would be a timescale that is vastly easier to  make conversions to and from and do math with that would mesh very well IMHO into the rest of the metric system.

so who else likes this idea.
BTW, I came up with this in like the second grade

[CP5670]

What you're describing makes sense, but all the times you see everywhere are on the 12 hour scale and you wouldn't be able to instantly convert between the 12 hour scale and your thing, so it would be inconvenient to use it in practice

By the way, my watch strap has broken three times in the last two weeks. I tried putting this really strong glue on it twice, which lasted for five days or so both times and then broke off again. Not sure what I should do about this now, as I don't want to spend $60 for a new one of these.

[kode]

swatch went and try to make money out of this idea (kind of).

I guess this page might be of interest too.

And don't y'all live in some country that's so backwards it's still using the imperial system?

[aldo_14]

Metric time has been an idea that's been around for a long time.  Alongside trying to have 10 day weeks and 10 week months or something like that, I believe.

[FireCrack]

Problem...

Now you have to change a plethoria of other things, velocity, force, electromagnetic flux, etc...


Better to use kiloseconds, megaseconds, microsecnds, and keep on non-metric for telling the date...

[BlackDove]

ever sence early grade school I always disliked the timeing system we have, with 24 hours in a divided into two seperate 12 hour chuncks,each hour being 60 minutes wich is made of 60 seconds, this makes math involved with time very very messy, so I developed what I now call a metric timescale.

in the metric time scale time is still based on the rotation of the earth, one day is one rotation of the planet, 24 standard hours, but, it is not divided into 24 hours, it is divided into 10 hours, each of these 'metric hours' would be 2.4 times the length of a standard hour, and every metric minute would be 1/100th the length of a metric hour, and each metric second would be 1/100th a metric miinute, makeing the metric second roughly .864 the time of a standard second.
the end result would be a timescale that is vastly easier to make conversions to and from and do math with that would mesh very well IMHO into the rest of the metric system.

so who else likes this idea.
BTW, I came up with this in like the second grade

So all we'd have to do is adjust to a different feel of seconds, minutes and hours. Doesn't sound all that impossible to me.

[Unknown Target]

They tried to introduce metric time when the metric system first came out, but no one wanted to switch, so it was dropped.

[Grey Wolf]

ever sence early grade school I always disliked the timeing system we have, with 24 hours in a divided into two seperate 12 hour chuncks,each hour being 60 minutes wich is made of 60 seconds, this makes math involved with time very very messy, so I developed what I now call a metric timescale.

in the metric time scale time is still based on the rotation of the earth, one day is one rotation of the planet, 24 standard hours, but, it is not divided into 24 hours, it is divided into 10 hours, each of these 'metric hours' would be 2.4 times the length of a standard hour, and every metric minute would be 1/100th the length of a metric hour, and each metric second would be 1/100th a metric miinute, makeing the metric second roughly .864 the time of a standard second.
the end result would be a timescale that is vastly easier to  make conversions to and from and do math with that would mesh very well IMHO into the rest of the metric system.

so who else likes this idea.
BTW, I came up with this in like the second grade

The French beat you to it. Just like René Barjavel beat me to the Grandfather Paradox. Bastards, stealing ideas from American schoolchildren

[Sandwich]

Lemme guess, Bobb... you were in the "I can't wait to see the havoc and mayhem tonight!" camp on December 31^st, 1999, right?

[Carl]

BTW, I came up with this in like the second grade

Your spelling looks like it came from the second grade, too.

[Mongoose]

Metric's way too easy, anyway.  How would we test kids in grade school on measurements if we didn't have some goofy system that forced them to actually learn it?

[StratComm]

Ah, but are you basing your time on a solar day or a rotational day?  Because earth does not, in fact, spin exactly 360 degrees every 24 standard hours.

[WMCoolmon]

Ah, but are you basing your time on a solar day or a rotational day?  Because earth does not, in fact, spin exactly 360 degrees every 24 standard hours.

This would be a chance to fix that

[Carl]

the earth does spin 360 degrees in 24 hours, but one day does not equal one full spin, because the earth has moved in it's orbit a little bit, so the sun is not parallel to the same side of the earth in the next 24 hours.

[Sandwich]

No, he's right, the Earth spins 360 degrees in something like 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 56 seconds.

[CP5670]

I think he's referring to the fact that the rotation cycle is actually something like 23.93 hours.

[Mefustae]

Well then, we should create a new system without that annoying twitch, thus alleviating the need for that insipid 'leap-year' business.

[Flipside]

LOL It's an interesting idea, but wouldn't work, it's been tried on several occasions, but you'd need to change everything, from clocks, computers, calenders etc, bespoke software would have to be rewritten, all credit and debit cards would have to be reprinted (since you'd have to decimalise months and years as well) the biggest problem with it is the size of the job involved, it's not like weights and measures, which were changed years ago, it would be a lot harder to do it now, as the attempts to introduce the litre to replace the pint in the UK proved recently, it was simply ignored by the general public.

[StratComm]

Nope, Carl's right.  I was refering to the whole celestial day/solar day thing.  If you use a star - any star besides our sun - as the fix for measuring a day, the numbers come out markedly different than when using our sun.

[aldo_14]

And perhaps they should rename the months after current heads of state rather than all those long dead Roman gods and emperors nobody believes in any more.