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minus-squarekillabeezio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoThere was an attempt to convert to decimal and use 100 minutes in an hour, but this failed and it was reverted back. https://somethingmarvelousblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/the-best-of-time-the-worst-of-time-the-failed-french-experiment-of-decimal-time/
minus-squareRicaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoThere was also a great proposal to use kiloseconds. We already use 15 minutes (16.67 minutes = 1ksec) a lot in regular speech. My language has a word for it (kvarter) which is used all the time. There used to be cool website listing all the benefits but it’s been down for a few years :(
minus-squareBandanaBug@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI’m assuming your language’s word for it comes from “quarter” meaning a forth of the total. In this case the total being an hour.
There was an attempt to convert to decimal and use 100 minutes in an hour, but this failed and it was reverted back. https://somethingmarvelousblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/the-best-of-time-the-worst-of-time-the-failed-french-experiment-of-decimal-time/
There was also a great proposal to use kiloseconds.
We already use 15 minutes (16.67 minutes = 1ksec) a lot in regular speech. My language has a word for it (kvarter) which is used all the time.
There used to be cool website listing all the benefits but it’s been down for a few years :(
I’m assuming your language’s word for it comes from “quarter” meaning a forth of the total. In this case the total being an hour.