Comment by fulafel
3 days ago
Yep, it's stupid from a units consistency pov. A bit like using calories instead of joules.
But on the other hand we also use hours for measuring time instead of kiloseconds...
3 days ago
Yep, it's stupid from a units consistency pov. A bit like using calories instead of joules.
But on the other hand we also use hours for measuring time instead of kiloseconds...
Yeah, if only we would define seconds to be 13.4% shorter than that are, we could have 100ks days. Also, ksecs would be a really convenient unit for planning one's day: a ~15 minute resolution is just right for just about any type of appointment.
Oh, and 1Ms weeks, consisting of 7 working days and 3 off days sound nice too.
One can dream! :-)
Much better to make seconds slightly larger than 2 seconds, and move to a dozenal system throughout. One hour is (1000)_12 novoseconds. A semi-day is (10000)_12.
Oh, we should switch our standard counting system to dozenal a well.