Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot

Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by mark-r on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:14PM (#22206957)

I once tried to imagine a metric time system, with a deciday of 14.4 minutes. I realized that it would never catch on, because a half-hour TV show would have to be cut to 28.8 minutes losing at least 2 commercials.

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by jonas21 on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:33PM (#22208460)

They actually tried this, during the French Revolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

It didn't catch on then either.

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by zokier on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:31AM (#22209987)

And again in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by zokier on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:31AM (#22209983)

14.4 minutes is a centiday btw. For decimal time I think milliday is the most reasonable unit, being very close to conventional minute.

In practice Mars might be the best opportunity for enacting decimal time, because Earth based units would be bit awkward on Mars.

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Re:Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot by mark-r on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:14PM (#22211630)

Thanks for the correction.

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