Time Zone Discussion

[akaSM]

Originally Posted by Bum Bill Bee

Hmm, y'know I always wondered why there was never a metric system for measuring time. The vast majority of the world uses a metric system to measure everything else.

*Insert U.S. and imperial system-related joke here*

[Bum Bill Bee]

....Youre welcome akaSM?

[Sithdarth]

If you guys want, i can totally hack the solar system vis a vis pyrokinetic manipulation of the distance between here and a certain burning ball o'hydrogen, and give you an extra hour - that way there'll be a 24:00 and 0:00 will mean 25 o'clock.

The earth may begin spiraling out of control and out of orbit, mass chaos may ensue as a result of billions of living creature's natural biorhythms going out of whack/ planetary jet lag, and the dark lord Shabraniogsoth may rise from the infernal maw between demensions to gnaw at our perceptions of reality and give rise to an age of eternal waking nightmare....

But everybody could really use that extra hour, amirite?

Man if you're going to make a joke at least be factually accurate. Changing the Earth-Sun distance will change the length of the year but do jack in terms of changing the length of the day.

Hmm, y'know I always wondered why there was never a metric system for measuring time. The vast majority of the world uses a metric system to measure everything else.

There is in a way. Otherwise we wouldn't have femtoseconds and the like. The SI unit of time is pretty much just various powers of seconds.

And now that I've killed the joy with facts I must depart.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Pffft the Frenchies tried real metric time- 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. Had a whole calendar too but not work as well- it was like 12 months of 3 ten day weeks with 5/6 holiday days.
Doing shit in base 12 is heaps more useful thouh (as our time is) and there was campaigns in the 19th century to change our entire math base system to 12 but it didn't catch on.

Though yeah, seconds behind themselves act metrically- its minutes and hours that aren't metric and they aren't SI units.

[krogothwolf]

Originally Posted by Professor Smarmiarty

Pffft the Frenchies tried real metric time- 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. Had a whole calendar too but not work as well- it was like 12 months of 3 ten day weeks with 5/6 holiday days.
Doing shit in base 12 is heaps more useful thouh (as our time is) and there was campaigns in the 19th century to change our entire math base system to 12 but it didn't catch on.

Though yeah, seconds behind themselves act metrically- its minutes and hours that aren't metric and they aren't SI units.

Leave it to the frenchies to do something moronic and then scrap it after realizing it.

[RobinStarwing]

If we really want to slow the Earth's rotation down to make more time in the day...I think we need to do one of three things to slow a ball of rock rotating at roughly 1000 miles/hour .

1) Move the Earth close enough to the Sun to tidal lock the planet.

2) The entire Human population runs really fast the opposite way of the Earth's rotation.

3) Hit the Earth with a glancing blow with a really big asteroid opposite of the Earth's rotation.