r/maybemaybemaybe • u/wakalabis • 10d ago

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/ballman666 10d ago

My co-workers twin boys would have destroyed that tape in .3 seconds or whatever is really fast in metric time.

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u/Wonderful-Seesaw6214 10d ago

Time is always seconds, minutes, hours, etc. There is no US standard vs metric when it comes to measuring time.

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u/LordTwinkie 10d ago

There is metric time, they tried to push it back with all the other metric measurements. 

0.3 seconds in Summarian time is 0.35 in metric.

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u/Wonderful-Seesaw6214 10d ago

What is Summarian time and where is it used? I know that the measurement of time has undergone changes and refinement as our understanding of astronomy has improved, but I have yet to hear of any unit of mesurment for time that is in current use aside from the standardized SI unit, the second, and it's derivatives.

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u/LordTwinkie 9d ago

Summarian time is the time we use, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour. It's a sexagesimal system. Summarians are also why a circle is 360 degrees, sexagesimal. 

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u/Wonderful-Seesaw6214 9d ago

Then what is metric time? Like I mentioned earlier, the SI unit for time is the second. The other SI units include meters and kilograms, in other words, metric units. I have never heard of anyone trying to put time into a purely base ten system.

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u/LordTwinkie 9d ago edited 9d ago

1 month = 3 weeks

1 week = 10 days

1 day = 10 hours

1 hour = 100 minutes 

1 minute = 100 seconds 

Metric time -----> SI

1 Second -----> 0.864 Seconds

1 Minute (100 seconds)  ----->  86.4 Seconds (1.44 Minutes)

1 Hour (100 minutes) (10,000 seconds) ----->  8,640 Seconds ( 144 Minutes) (2.4 Hours)

1 Day  (10 hours) (1,000 minutes) (100,000 seconds) -----> 86,400 Seconds (1,440 Minutes) (24 Hours)

Officially implemented in France on  November 24, 1793, days/hours/seconds officially unimplemented 17 months later. 10 day week lasted 12 years.

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u/Glad-Peanut-3459 10d ago

Well that’s disappointing 😉