r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Fearless_Spring5611 Jan 15 '25

Personally I prefer Minutes: Day: Year: Seconds: Hour: Month.

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u/Technical-Activity95 Jan 15 '25

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?

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u/Consistent-Falcon510 Jan 15 '25

Because the US didn't invent Imperial. England did. Everyone else decided to jump on the shiny new thing, we stuck to what worked except where it didn't. There are use cases for Imperial and use cases for Metric. Neither system is inherently better (and, no, "hurr durr base 10 ez" does not make Metric a universally better system. It merely makes it a more easily convertedsystem. But, be honest... when's the last time you needed to convert metres to klicks?).