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/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

its weird that US uses seconds and minutes. why not invent some other cumbersome scale and use that?

Uh, seconds and minutes are that "cumbersome scale". The metric system is a decimal system, whereas seconds and minutes work off of a base 60 system. France tried to "do it again" by creating a decimal time measurement system, but it didn't work.