Metric Time
15th July 2024
What makes metric time so cool is that would make all the mental math we have to do when adding and subtracting time so much easier—especially when it comes to different timezones. Working with base-10 numbers is so much easier than trying to think in base-60, base-12, and base-24.
Unfortunately, just being “cool” is not enough to motivate people to change how they live. And, because time is a coordinated cultural practice, everybody has to change at once, and ain’t nobody got time for dat (otherwise Americans would be using metric measures like the rest of the world).