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    You have to start with a year and work backwards. A year is the amount of time it takes the earth to go around the sun. In that "year", the earth also rotates on its own axis 365 times, so that is called a "day". If you want to split the day up into 10 increments instead of 24, thats fine. But Years and Days are pretty much set. (Unless you wanted a day to be 48 hours, or 74 hours, etc., which makes less sense for sleep patterns and still doesnt get you to a "metric" system anyway)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Briks42 View Post
    But then how could you get from a day to a year. A year would still need to be 365 days for the seasons to remain the same, not 100?
    Yes, very true, and therein lies the rub. We could divide a day up into nice neat multiples of 10 because it stands alone, but there are 365 days in one revolution around the sun and there's no way around it.

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    then those crazy commies would really be stuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PVC View Post
    Yes, very true, and therein lies the rub. We could divide a day up into nice neat multiples of 10 because it stands alone, but there are 365 days in one revolution around the sun and there's no way around it.
    An easy fix is to change the speed of revolution. Get enough rockets on one side of the planet (would require some coordination as the planet is rotating), and speed the sucker up until it's 100 days per revolution.

    That will solve all our problems.

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    or... superman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles Staley View Post
    I've been arguing for the idea of metric time for years

    100 yrs = Century. OK we already do this, it makes sense. Then:
    10 months = 1 year
    10 weeks = 1 month
    1 days = 1 week
    10 hrs = 1 day
    10 mins = 1 hr
    10 secs = 1 min
    Staley and I have kicking this idea around for a couple of years. It would require some changes, true enough, like calenders, clocks, etc., but it would make a lot of things easier.

    And we have the money. Money can make lots of things happen.

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    Were you planning to block out the sun too? You guys aren't really thin enough to be like Mr. Burns.

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    Why not start with the really easy stuff like changing to metric, before changing to metric time?

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    I'm still looking for names, cause we'd have to have names. If we switched over, how would we distinguish between the new and the old? Before time (BT) and after time (AT)?

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    Because time is so personal, so constant, getting used to metric using time would accelerate metric conversion for other unit of measurement

    Quote Originally Posted by hbriem View Post
    Why not start with the really easy stuff like changing to metric, before changing to metric time?

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