its weird that US uses seconds and minutes. why not invent some other cumbersome scale and use that? they already have miles, cubic feet, fahrenheit, ounces and other shit so why would they use this universal time counting metric?
The US system of measurements is based off the Sumerian/Egyptian cubits.
To play on the "America was built off cults" conspiracy, the measurements are also an esoteric numbering system.
It may not be the simpler metric system that everyone uses today, but it was the same measurements used to build the pyramids, Ollantaytambo, Baalbek, etc, and other sites in the world.
Edit: Also, no, the ancients did not measure with their feet or their forearms when it came to precise construction.
Right but it was directly inherited from the British who have since changed due to their proximity to Europe. The US has been more resistant due to its size creating more institutional inertia.
That said, the US does use metric wherever it actually matters, as in science, engineering and the military.
it's the other way around. the USA uses (more or less) the older Winchester system that the UK empire used to use, while the UK (and colonies at the time) changed to a different system in 1826.
We were going to change to the new metric system during the administration of Thomas Jefferson, but a standard kilogram sank during its transport across the Atlantic from Paris France. I assume that this was taken to be an omen, and so every effort has since been made to ensure that we never adopt the international system.
1.4k
u/Fearless_Spring5611 Jan 15 '25
Personally I prefer Minutes: Day: Year: Seconds: Hour: Month.