The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy

Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by ChoHag on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:54AM (#12642657)

That is the point. There is no way to cleanly divide up the time taken by the earth's orbit by the time taken by the earth's rotation. They are simply incompatible. It is impossible to say objectively that any one scheme is better than another, with one exception: the current scheme is always better than all the others by virtue of being current.

And consider this: Leap seconds are a thing.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:21AM (#12643541)

Your point about years is completely irrelevant to how you divide a day into hours, minutes, and seconds, which is what 'decimal time' talks about.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by ChoHag on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:57PM (#12648679)

The advantage of decimalisation is the geometric expansion it engenders which cannot happen because the year is not 10, 100, 1000 or any other multiple of 10 days. It is not an integer multiple of anything days. It is evidence that no matter how much we try and break the universe up into nice coherent chunks, the universe has other ideas. Fighting reality will fail.

The advantage to breaking up the day into units less than 1 day is the factorisation that can be applied. 24 factors much better than 10. Pretty much everything factors much better than 10.

There is no advantage to decimalising the day except to give basement-dwellers a boner.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @08:09PM (#12649095)

24 and 60 equally fail when you try to turn days into years. That doesn't mean you give up on picking a good system for fractions of days and multiples of years.

There is no[1] advantage to having a smattering of small factors. People make much too big a deal about dividing into thirds.

[1] "no" in the same way that decimalization has no advantage, in that the advantages of either system are small and unnecessary.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by ChoHag on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:33AM (#12651366)

We didn't give up. We found one and we stuck to it. I don't care about factoring, that's a minor cool hack.

The point is simple: Adding or removing dots from the face of a clock is a complete waste of (heh) time.

If you people really need to wank over a calender, pick one with jugs in it or get rid of timezones and daylight savings. That would be actually helpful.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:09AM (#12652540)

> Adding or removing dots from the face of a clock is a complete waste of (heh) time.

Nobody was advocating for doing that. You started an argument about doing so, in reply to a post merely saying that it would be "as convenient" as the current system, and that decimal time failed because we already had a unified time system.

> If you people really need to wank over a calender

Nobody had even mentioned calendars until you showed up. "you people" = "ChoHag".

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