Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-30049823-20200405120159/@comment-27306930-20200409035646

Rskm1 wrote: ... But there are still 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, etc, so... either do it right or don't bother, I say! Metric timekeeping is a total clusterf, ahem, mess. It's only effective for measuring elapsed time, not dates and times of day. Part of the problem is 100 is not readily divisible by 3 or 6, whereas 60 is the smallest integer divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. That's the main reason the Sumerians were sexagesimal. Very sexagesimal (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

As for metric time, just google "centiday". Seriously, you could spend a couple or three centidays exploring that rabbit hole. From a practical standpoint, it's way too granular. It gives you no sense of time. For instance, the Brits would break for "66.67 Tea".

Waaaaay off topic, I've always been fascinated by Modified Julian Date timekeeping. Some operating systems track the current time based on the number of nanoseconds since noon on November 17th, 1858. It makes no sense for us humans, but it's absolutely awesome for computing super accurate dates and times.