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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 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The foot hasn't been based on "The Kings foot" in over a thousand years. The meter is precisely defined via natural phenomenon, but there is nothing stopping the foot from being defined similarly. The inch however is precisely defined, same with the mile, the fathom, the yard, the acre, etc.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're trying to say that US Imperial units are legally defined in metric: the yard is 0.9144 meters, etc.

Imperial units had to be standardized by international agreements, such as the aforementioned international yard standardized in 1959, because different countries might be using different definitions.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

True. But even within those differing imperial measurements, 12inches defined a foot, 3feet to a yard etc. But I agree there wasn't a standard imperial unit of length until recently. Anyway, Metric is fine, but I dislike when people criticize other units of measurement just because they have units divisions that aren't base 10 as if its weird or "shit" that people want to divide things in ways that aren't halves or fifths.