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DoctorOtter t1_j6md24x wrote

This is what I want:

12 months in a year

3 weeks in a month

10 days in a week

10 hours in a day

100 minutes in a hour

100 seconds in a minute

These new seconds are not the same length as regular seconds. I haven't done the math but it is possible to just make a second faster or slower.

Every year ends with a leap week of 4 or 5 days to adjust the calendar.

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pselie4 t1_j6mkz86 wrote

>These new seconds are not the same length as regular seconds. I haven't done the math but it is possible to just make a second faster or slower.

You just gave every scientist and engineer a new nightmare. And I'm sure every programmer who ever had to code time and date functions has put you on their hit list.

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DoctorOtter t1_j6mm28p wrote

Ok. We don't necessarily need to go all the way down to new seconds. We can keep the hours in a day as is but have new months and weeks.

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jran1984 t1_j6myp3p wrote

There is already a thing called decimal time, with hours minutes and seconds depicted this way. The reason it isn't widely used it adopted is because the current system is so engrained that we can't dislodge it. We can't even get the US to switch to the metric system.

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