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People like to shit on the imperial measurements for its inconsistensies, but why is it we have a similarly dogshit one for measuring time? (lemmygrad.ml)
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For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It's like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet...

Edit: just to clarify, I'm more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I am joking, but beer is drunk by the pint and brewed by the barrel as Marx intended, though Germany had lost it's way and started using centiliters, bleh.

That said I am absolutely perfectly adept at the metric system and used it exclusive when I studied chemistry, however for home improvement's and craftswork, I still use inches/feet.