Can anyone think of a logical reason why we cant decilimise time?!
Question: i.e. ten hours a day, ten days a week, ten months in a year...ect. it cant be that hardto work out, after all we made the clocks!
Answers: i.e. ten hours a day, ten days a week, ten months in a year...ect. it cant be that hardto work out, after all we made the clocks!
People made clocks based on the hours of the day that are available to us because of the sun: earth's rotations and revolutions. The entire time thing is based on a system that already existed BEFORE humans figured out how to measure and record it: the solar system. Change that successfully, and you can have it any way you want! Yippee!
what advantage would decimalisation bring? the time system is understood and adopted by almost every human, so why change it?
Time is infinite.
It doesnt make a difference. There are never enough hours in a day sometimes anyway.
Better yet, lets live by zulu time....it's the same time all over the world at any given moment. Then if you need to call from NY to Hong Kong, Munich, Bangkok, Los Angeles and Tokyo at a specific hour, you won't have to do all the time conversions.
What is so good about the decimal system? Its base of ten is divisible by 0,1, 2, 5 and 10.
24 is divisible by 0, 1, 2 3, 4, 6, 8 12, and 24. More useful.
And are you going to make Earth spin 1000 times a year exactly? Make the moon orbit every 100 days?
We only have the decimal system because we have ten fingers. If we had been born with twelve we would have had a duodecimal system (except it would be called a twelve system), 'deci' would be relegated to the same station as all the other numbers.
No, I'm afraid that I can't at the moment
I'll come back to you in twelvty deciminutes...