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Time to double down on the metric system
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[French revolution intensifies]
Unfortunately with dates you also want to incorporate the natural cycles of the earth and sun, which not only aren't decimal but usually incommensurable, so it's a hard thing to do. The French just had a block of their calendar that didn't count as "real" days IIRC.
If we start seriously going to space, doing everything by Unix epoch (count of seconds since the 60's ended) would make sense, and planning your day might well go by kiloseconds. Someone on here suggested giving up on standardised time zones and just doing everything long-distance that way even on Earth, which grew on me as an idea.
Oh man, you just reminded me of the incoming Epochalypse... A tangent to what you're talking about but something that I feel isn't being taken seriously enough.
I suppose we still have just over 13.5 years, but we have so much more computerized stuff now than we did in the 90s, and how many things do we own with clocks that can't be updated? Interesting times ahead.
Indeed. 64-bit Linux always used 64-bit times, but 32-bit was only updated to it in 2020, and who knows what baremetal embedded systems are doing. A lot of stuff is going to reach EOL by 2038 anyway, but I'm sure there will be people freaking out because their shitty old oven won't turn on, or even their furnace! Anything that's actually professionally maintained will be easier.