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For as much shit as you give Americans for using imperial measurements, why are you still using old units of time (seconds, minutes, and hours)? Shouldn't you have come up with something based on water by now that is divisible by 100s? At this point, it just feels disingenuous giving an American shit about "freedom units" when you're walking around talking about hours that were defined by the Babylonians 5,000 years ago.
Honestly, get your shit together.
Edit: lol Europeans woke up angry
Well no, we just adpoted the second in the SI system. The definition it's not based on water, but caesium.
Exactly. Just as every kid learns in kindergarten. A kilogram is the weight of 1,000 cubic cms of water. A liter is the volume of 1 kilogram of water. And a second is the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, Δν~Cs~, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s^−1^.
Beautiful, isn't it.
There were a few attempts to make metric time. Revolutionary France tried it and Swatch Internet Time was an attempt by a Swiss watch company during early internet days, honestly it was probably a promo stunt rather than an earnest attempt, but a few things supported it, including PHP and the MMO Phantasy Star Online.
Second is an SI unit.
So by adopting it as an SI unit, that means that it isn't an arbitrary unit of measurement like Fahrenheit? What an imperialistic way of determining something is a standard.
Yeah the International Bureau of Weights and Measures which Is a member of is very imperialistic.
No, but it is divisible by 100.
Metric time for the win.
This guy gets it
there's picoseconds and there's knots
Never heard of microseconds, nanoseconds, picoseconds etc? It's almost as if a second is a metric measurement of time. Going the other way you get kiloseconds.
Oh sweet, my GPS tells me to turn right in 0.3 miles all the time. Didn't realize that was the definition of metric. Also seems like you're conveniently ignoring minutes and hours.