VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat old thing surprisingly still exists?message-squaremessage-square238fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down10
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minus-squareaugustus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·20 hours agoClocks split into 60 minute hours.
minus-squareiceberg314@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 hours ago60 is such a nice highly composite number though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
minus-squareAnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoOooh, I didn’t know this was the word for this. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with me
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours agoFrance tried decimalizing time around the revolution. People hated it.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours agoif America has any say it would be by school bus or football field.
minus-squareaugustus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·19 hours agoThat we still use Babylonian time notation?
minus-squaregraynk@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 hours agothere may be better alternatives, but migrating the WHOLE WORLD to a new system just because it’s slightly better is not gonna happen. hence - unsurprising. the fact that imperial unit system still exists IS surprising though
Clocks split into 60 minute hours.
60 is such a nice highly composite number though!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
Oooh, I didn’t know this was the word for this. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with me
France tried decimalizing time around the revolution. People hated it.
And how should it be done?
if America has any say it would be by school bus or football field.
That’s rather unsurprising
That we still use Babylonian time notation?
there may be better alternatives, but migrating the WHOLE WORLD to a new system just because it’s slightly better is not gonna happen. hence - unsurprising.
the fact that imperial unit system still exists IS surprising though