How would we be able to make time metric? - General

[QUOTE=Leg of Doom;29344797]Fuck mm/dd/year if you do that then you might as well have the digital clock displaying minutes/seconds/hours.[/QUOTE] 10 past 12, or 12:10 ?

Well I guess it would be a good idea to standardize time as well to run in powers of ten eventually. 100 seconds to the minute, 100 minutes to the hour, etc.

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29344835]We use the Gregorian Calendar, it's the most accurate one ever made. No changes necessary for a long time.[/QUOTE] I typed a long reply to your terribly wrong post, but it didn't come through. Here is the condensed version: :v: :v: :v: No, oh god no. Just no, etc. Read the wikipedia article on calender reform. [editline]22nd April 2011[/editline] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Date_format_by_country.svg[/img] Magenta is mm/dd/year, cyan is dd/mm/year and yellow is year/mm/dd America doing what it wants, contrary to the rest of the world, like usual.

Three kilometers ago, the dinosaurs died.

[QUOTE=Contag;29345245]-map-[/QUOTE] What does Canada use?

[QUOTE=flyschy;29345407]What does Canada use?[/QUOTE] No one knows, they can't understand the accents. [editline]22nd April 2011[/editline] They use all three systems of date notation.

It's simple. Don't fucking do it.

[QUOTE=Contag;29345245]I typed a long reply to your terribly wrong post, but it didn't come through. Here is the condensed version: :v: :v: :v: No, oh god no. Just no, etc. Read the wikipedia article on calender reform. [editline]22nd April 2011[/editline] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Date_format_by_country.svg[/img_thumb] Magenta is mm/dd/year, cyan is dd/mm/year and yellow is year/mm/dd America doing what it wants, contrary to the rest of the world, like usual.[/QUOTE] Do you even know what the Gregorian calendar is?

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29345752]Do you even know what the Gregorian calendar is?[/QUOTE] *blink* Are you, the person who couldn't be bothered to search 'calender reform' in google, seriously asking me whether I've at least had a cursory glance at the dominant western calender system?

[QUOTE=Contag;29345827]*blink* Are you, the person who couldn't be bothered to search 'calender reform' in google, seriously asking me whether I've at least had a cursory glance at the dominant western calender system?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=zedpenguin;29331807]I was reading this: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1080810-Why-can-t-everyone-just-stick-to-the-same-unit-of-measurement[/url] Really, how hard would it be to make time metic, I can understand it would be a worldwide thing and alot of things would have to change, but the actual process wouldn't be that hard to do. Can some explain to me how this would work?[/QUOTE] The OP is trying to set up a metric calendar. I don't know where you're pulling out your calendar reform on where we put the month and day when we write the date.

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29345853]The OP is trying to set up a metric calendar. I don't know where you're pulling out your calendar reform on where we put the month and day when we write the date.[/QUOTE] The edited part was a response to the dd/mm/year stuff derailment. The first part was to you, about the calender system. But we can have a hybridized calender system with decimal time being limited to a day.

[QUOTE=Contag;29346071]The edited part was a response to the dd/mm/year stuff derailment. The first part was to you, about the calender system. But we can have a hybridized calender system with decimal time being limited to a day.[/QUOTE] Why would we want to change a system that has been efficient for the past few centuries?

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29346227]Why would we want to change a system that has been efficient for the past few centuries?[/QUOTE] The Gregorian calender because the days of the month are all over the place, the quarters aren't equal and it's difficult to find what day a date corresponds with. I mean, it works, but so did the Julian calender.

[QUOTE=Contag;29346344]The Gregorian calender because the days of the month are all over the place, the quarters aren't equal and it's difficult to find what day a date corresponds with. I mean, it works, but so did the Julian calender.[/QUOTE] The Julian Calendar was a stupid mess. Emperor Julius Caesar just added days to the calendar with no regards to the seasons just so that he can stay in reign and lengthen the senate's terms in office. If we still used the Julian Calendar, Spring equinox would end up being placed in winter season. [editline]21st April 2011[/editline] Pope Gregory took note of that and set up a new calendar which is only off by one day every 3 millennia.

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29346398]The Julian Calendar was a stupid mess. Emperor Julius Caesar just added days to the calendar with no regards to the seasons just so that he can stay in reign and lengthen the senate's terms in office. If we still used the Julian Calendar, Spring equinox would end up being placed in winter season. [editline]21st April 2011[/editline] Pope Gregory took note of that and set up a new calndar which is only off by one day every 3 millennia.[/QUOTE] Yes, he removed the 13th month which is why it and our current system are all over the place. Being off by 16 hours every [B]century[/B] isn't a huge deal considering the times. Imagine if we still used the Julian system - who would be affected by it, other than historians and theologians? My point is, just because something works (they both gave decent dates within a reasonable timeframe), doesn't mean it doesn't need improvement, which is my issue with you saying it cannot be improved.

The implementation of the Gregorian system took out 10 days between October 4, 1582 and October 15. If we stuck with the Roman Calendar, we would have 445 days with extra months stuffed between February and March, and in between November and December. Why would we still bother implementing such a accurate system such as the Gregorian calendar? [editline]21st April 2011[/editline] It's near-redundant.

Because it can be improved, which is my point regarding the Gregorian system.

I read something in Death From The Skies about about how, in order to divert an asteroid that's on a collision course with Earth, our best option is to launch a large heavy rocket that will orbit the asteroid. This displaces the center of gravity, and the force of the rocket bursts at optimal times tugs on it, and thus, the initial orbit path of the asteroid is slightly altered, which, over time, moves the asteroid's path safely away from us. Maybe we can do the same thing with earth. If we build a Death Star, we could tug earth in such a way as to to make it's orbit tighter and faster, so that the the earth orbits the Sun in 100 days. This may not solve the 24-hours thing, and the planet would no longer be able to sustain life, but hey, we'd be once step closer to a metric calender.

Everyone knows/uses the time we use now, don't see too much of a reason to change it.

[QUOTE=flyschy;29331855]The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom. At sea level at 0K.[/QUOTE] Bohr's quantum jumps all up in this.

I expected someone suggesting to somehow make time independent from space or something...

Metric Calendar? I'm pretty sure that would break everything. I mean, the seasons and stuff fit so perfectly into the calendar right now. Changing it would just screw everything up. [QUOTE=Contag] The edited part was a response to the dd/mm/year stuff derailment. The first part was to you, about the calender system. [b]But we can have a hybridized calender system with decimal time being limited to a day.[/b] [/QUOTE] Why change it?