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Time to double down on the metric system (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

The French actually tried it, here's the Wikipedia article.

A more reasonable thing to do is something like Swatch Internet Time, you get 1000 ".beats" in a day with no time zones. Beyond a day it might not be too helpful to keep decimal, there will be 365+fraction days a year no matter how you measure it.

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I think this is what Phantasy Star Online used back in the day!

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, unfortunately for time we're tied to space-stuff. A day will always be useful, so will a year. A lunar month is not as useful as it once was, probably not necessary as a primary unit.