The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy

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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