• @Everythingispenguins
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    28 months ago

    Yes it is, but SI is not all metric. Metric is fundamentally a base 10 system. Time is base 60 you can probably thank the ancient Sumerians for that but there’s some debate.

    At one point the French tried to make metric time a thing but it didn’t stick.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Short times are always given in scales of 10 for seconds (ms, μs, ns). And long ones can be too.

      • @Everythingispenguins
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        8 months ago

        And machinists in America use decimal inches, but I don’t think anyone would say that inches is metric.

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