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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it. (lemmy.world)

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Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I'd be very interested!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if you redefined the length of a second?

Could you not divide a day into, say 10000, and just call that length of time 1 second? 100 seconds in an hour and 100 hours in a day? At least for the day to day clock.

No idea how you would deal with weeks and months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If you redefine the length of a second, all sorts of bad things would happen because of the transition. And that's even before you remove the standard for what a second means because the length of a day will change over time. As for weeks and months, check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar for one such idea.