Monday, November 05, 2007

Everything you ever wanted to know about metric time but were too afraid to ask

From the people who brought you the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (still endangered), comes:

Metric Time.

Metric Time (MT) is an attempt to create a decimalized time system for our modern base-10 using world. This is a neglected part of the Metric System (or SI) which has created a whole measuring system based on 10 for mass, distance, volume, etc., but no official decimalized time units for normal day-to-day use. Since any system for measuring time is arbitrary, we should be using one that is most practical for us. I think that system is Metric Time.

Apparently this would work out as:

10 metric hours in a day
100 metric minutes in a metric hour
100 metric seconds in a metric minute
10 days in a metric week (called a dekade)

Sounds good to me.

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