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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by tophercyll on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @04:42PM (#2195043)
We often (jokingly) measure time in kiloseconds around my office. As rue points out, that's just a bit over fifteen minutes, so its actually a useful unit.

"See you in the conference room in 2 ksecs..."

Put a bunch of geeks together too long and this is what happens.

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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by masklinn on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:16AM (#2196993)
decimal time (using SI prefixes to the regular second) is regularly used in (physical) engineering disciplines.
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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by kjhgfdfgh on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @05:57PM (#2195303)
Real geeks use milli-fortnight
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Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (... by anonymous1234 on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:56PM (#2195487)
Indeed.

http://www.google.com/search?q=fortnight+/+1000

1 fortnight / 1000 = 20.16 minutes

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