Metric Time

A Guide To Metric Time… seen on Slashdot in Isn’t it Time for Metric Time? discusses a proposed system for converting to base-ten time. As if the U.S. doesn’t have enough problems converting to metric measurement, except curiously for soda containers, here comes a new proposal sure not to be adopted.

“Metric Time (MT) is an attempt to create a decimalized time system for our modern base-10 using world. This is a neglected part of the Metric System (or SI) which has created a whole measuring system based on 10 for mass, distance, volume, etc., but no official decimalized time units for normal day-to-day use. Since any system for measuring time is arbitrary, we should be using one that is most practical for us. I think that system is Metric Time.”

Actually, reading through it gives one a creepy feeling, as of something not quite right. If the human race ever gets into space, this is likely a system that may be used, as it’s not dependent on any planetary system. The full discussion is quite in-depth and well thought out, with conversions to and from “Anglo-Babylonian Time (ABT)” time (our Base-60 system).