I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.

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    9 months ago

    Dates? Swatch replaces seconds, minutes, and hours with .beats. Metres per second (used in scientific contexts), minutes per kilometre (used by runners), and kilometres per hour (used in most other contexts) would all be unusable under Swatch time.

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      9 months ago

      If we were using beats, it would be meters per .beat I guess. Many physical constants would be different numbers but that’s about it

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        9 months ago

        …but that’s about it

        That’s not how people work. You think Americans are stubborn about our customary units? Try damn-near everyone (including many Americans) with SI.

        Time in particular is unlikely to be significantly reworked because you can only push the inconsistencies out so far. So you divide the day into a thousand beats. Great. A year is still not an integer number of days, and weeks and months are only loosely based on physical (lunar) phenomena at all.

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      9 months ago

      (measure) per (new measure of time)

      It would be very inconvenient at first, but it doesn’t change the math.