Three-Day Weekends, Longer Seconds & 100-Day Christmas: Welcome to Decimal Time
Ever looked at a clock and thought, “Why is this so messy? ”Twelve hours. Sixty minutes. Sixty seconds. But what if we started again? What if we threw the whole thing in the bin.
A little thought experiment to break your brain (and possibly society)
Ever looked at a clock and thought, “Why is this so messy?”
Twelve hours. Sixty minutes. Sixty seconds.
It’s like we let a committee of medieval monks and Babylonian mathematicians cobble it together — because, well, we did.
But what if we started again?
What if we threw the whole thing i…
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