Reposting bc I dun goofed before

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    No, it’s correct, metric time is just using seconds for everything, you end up with minutes, hours, days,… as auxiliary units. And then there’s decimal time, which tries to divide the day into 10 hours, the French tried to introduce that during the revolution.

    • @lugal
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      39 months ago

      Are you talking about SI unites? I mean, sure, there is overlap but the metric system is what people use in everyday life and SI is a scientific system where you don’t even use prefixes (like kilo) but just powers of 10. In no case to people use kiloseconds

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        29 months ago

        The SI system is a metric system and also defines the use of the words describing powers of ten. The use of kiloseconds also isn’t wrong, it just means 1000 seconds, obviously. But it only makes sense in context (for example short lived isotopes).

        The same way “Megameter” is formally correct but no one uses it because there is rarely a context where this was useful.

        • @lugal
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          19 months ago

          I bet there is are least one or two kilo people who use it unironically.

          Jokes aside, there is a different between a metric system and the metric system, and also between not wrong and right but at this point I’m just nitpicking that people shouldn’t be so nitpicky. Don’t take me serious.