Why not? What’s wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?
We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.
So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It’s completely arbitrary, I tell you!
And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it’s insanity!
There’s a bill fresh out of committee that would put (most of) us on permanent DST. It’s got some bipartisan support and the Angry Orange has said he’s in favor of it.
If we’re really committed to not going by solar time, everything should be UTC.
I’m an American, and I refuse to switch to metric time.
[threatens with ISO-8601]
Today is May 6th.
[Runs away hissing] 2026-06-05T18:25:00+00:00
This thread has been cleansed
Actual metric time was a fiasco I’ve always been fascinated by
Why not? What’s wrong with having a day composed of 1000 chroners, or 1 kilochroner which can be divided into either 10 centichroners or 100 decachroners?
We can even divide each chroner into 1000 millichroners, or for scientific purposes, a million microchroners, a billion nanochroners, or a trillion picochroners.
So much more sense than 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours. What even is a second, anyway? When was it defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference? It’s completely arbitrary, I tell you!
And then when you extend that to 7 days, times 4 to 4.43 weeks, times 12 months before you finally get into decimals (decades, centuries, millenia, etc.), it’s insanity!
Daylight saving.
Now that that’s going away maybe we’ll finally have metric time. The age of the chroner is upon us!
It’s not going away?
Oh you’re right, it’s becoming permanent. Normal time is going away.
What an altered dimension we’ve found ourselves in. Poor Harambe… 😔
Where are you that they are doing that? That’s not the case where I am.
The US.
There’s a bill fresh out of committee that would put (most of) us on permanent DST. It’s got some bipartisan support and the Angry Orange has said he’s in favor of it.
https://www.factcheck.org/2026/06/trumps-push-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/
UTC isn’t metric time. LOL
Metric time isn’t real. That’s the joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
You are not fun.
I’ve made this argument so many times. It just makes things so much easier when dealing internationally
If we’re not going by solar time we should go with TAI. Fuck leap seconds.
but I live in EST land so therefore it is the best option