Will We Ever Have Metric Time?

**manker** · 02-08-2005, 03:20 PM

Twelve and Sixty are each divisible by one more integer respectively than their ten and one hundred counterparts.

However, the last bit -- 12 and 60 are much more convenient units to divide by -- is fecking rubbish.

I don't think there will be metric time any time this millenium because of the hassle of conversion. Everyone uses the 24 hour day, 60 minutes per hour concept now, to change it would be expensive and pointless.

**vivitron 15** · 02-08-2005, 04:21 PM

i think that is what was meant with more convenient to divide by - that more digits "go into" them without remainder...

this is why schools teach 360degrees in a circle, despite it being an appaulling system, much better to use 2 pi radians

**manker** · 02-08-2005, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by vivitron 15

i think that is what was meant with more convenient to divide by - that more digits "go into" them without remainder...

So, like, they're divisible by more integers. I should have thought of that.

Btw, the 360 degree circle, when regarding schooling, is a particularly good system as it's not very often that maths paints a qualitative picture but when dealing with degrees and their constituents (minutes and seconds) then a child is able to visualise the problem much easier, by thinking of a clock, than if they were dealing with irrational numbers, like pi.

**Skiz** · 02-08-2005, 04:57 PM

If there's no cause for change, then there won't be (change)

**TheDave** · 02-08-2005, 06:19 PM

anyone else still order spice (sweets) in quarters?

**Barbarossa** · 02-09-2005, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

I hope that is a roddage post, otherwise you are slightly mental (at least).

I know what I bloody well meant!

(so did vivitron, thankfully...

)

**Virtualbody1234** · 02-09-2005, 01:05 PM

Seconds are already metric: http://www.essex1.com/people/speer/units.html

**tesco** · 02-09-2005, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Skizo

If there's no cause for change, then there won't be (change)

there was no point in changing to metric measurement in the first place. But we did, and it's great.

**brenda** · 02-09-2005, 05:47 PM

Some people think wayyyyyyyy too much......... AND THAT INCLUDES YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

ehh?

wha?

@ TheDave - no but drugs are often bought in olde worlde measurements

@ everyone - what the feck would we want a 10 day week for!!!!!!! 8 days at work 2 days off....... no thanks