Why Don’t We Have Metric Time? | Answers With Joe
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The metric system revolutionized the world and simplified how we measure things. But one part of our lives never quite got the metric treatment – time. The reason why highlights the importance of time on our lives.
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https://metricviews.org.uk/2007/07/16/metric-system-origin/
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https://ageofrevolutions.com/2019/06/24/the-metric-system-an-enduring-revolutionary-dream/
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https://snippetsofparis.com/french-revolutionary-calendar/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gregorian-calendar
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-Gregorian-and-Julian-Calendars
https://www.history.com/news/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-gregorian-calendar
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-11/the-death-and-life-of-the-13-month-calendar
@hansdegroot652
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Some youtuber used danny devito as a unit for heights 😂
@hazrust
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
We got metric time before gta6
@davidchidester5463
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Metric time just doesnt work because a traditional hour is a digestible amount of time. More than doubling it makes it useless as a measurement.
@TomLeg
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
The REAL reason (in my opinion) for the origins of the metric system is that not only were there so many measuring units, but they varied from place to place. A length of wool was measured in a different way from a length of wood. Barrels of wine used different sizes than barrels of dried beef. We still use a different ounce for gold than of other things, and gemsmtones have their own unit too. The goal of metric was to have a single unit of length, a single unit of width, a single unit of volume.
@DarkRendition
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
I was looking forward to watching this, but I can’t handle this really distracting background music 🎵. Not only is it too loud, but the percussive noises ticking away, for some reason, infuriate me. Am I the only one? Probably.
@davidioanhedges
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
NB 'She' told them to eat cake – probably didn't happen, or if it did it happened around 100 years before the French Revolution
@DwayneShaw1
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
(pre-watch)"Why Don't We Have Metric Time?" – Easter
@johnbert974
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Metric is for people who don't understand fractions… :/
@MikeBaxterABC
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
2:03 🙁 .. OMG … The reason "Foot Models" exist!!
@mikeguilmette776
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Random people on the internet being overly offended by comments that don't actually affect them? Surely such a thing has never happened . . .
@finaoo1167
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Important point about the international fixed calendar is that the one day of the year ("year day") does not occur within a 7 day week. The day before year day is Saturday, and the day after year day is Sunday. Year day is only year day. So, every year (and every month) begins on a Sunday, and ends on a Saturday. Your birthday would be the same day of the week every year.
@finaoo1167
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
My wife wants to leave me. She says I'm unamerican. I have to admit, I saw it coming a kilometer away.
@josejesusamayz2495
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Es raro que usen medidas inglesas si el sistema de eeuu es metrico. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UW1GJBUwG94
@davidstafford-ilie6110
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
100 seconds in hminute, 32 hminutes in a nhour, 9 nhours in a shift, and 3 shifts per day. Multiply it out and we get 86400 seconds per day, which is the same as we have today, so seconds are the same duration in either system. nhours are a little shorter than an hour, but a 9 nhour shift is the same as an 8 hour work day, so no benefit there; perhaps we can fit lunch and breaks into the shift and get a shorter work week. Digital clocks go 1-3 for shift, 1-9 for nhour, 00-31 for hminute, and 00-99 for second. 5:13:48pm = 3'1'12.28 (On clocks could show the shift as ¯-_, so _1'12.28).
@jamesmarino7364
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Metric are commy units
@someguy-k2h
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
You said 1Kg is equivelent to 6.626 X 10⁻³⁴, which is just insane. It's not a number that is even remotely close to the right answer. An actual kg has mass following E = mc². The mass is in kg and the speed of light is in meters/seconds. When we have one Kg, E is equal to the speed of light squared (299,792,458²) = 89,875,517,873,681,764 joules. So you were only off by a factor of 1.35 X 10⁵⁰. Seeing as the universe is only 4.98 X 10¹⁸ seconds old, you can see just how ridiculous your number is. Didn't one person in 4 years point this out to you?
@dondeutsch
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
I think I missed something. How is a mass defined using an energy?
@geraldstiling3735
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
An infinite,but diminishing resource ⌛⏰⌚
@dianew800
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
14:12 Companies still use this calendar. The biggest issue is that every couple years, the fiscal year loses a month or 2 to line up the year start date with January.
@kevinthompson629
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
We in the post office use our own form ofi military time breaking an hour into 100 increments for no apparent reason.
@johnlumsden9102
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
5:30 Its like the barter system with extra steps.
@ThatHueyFreeman
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
As my man George Jefferson might say, leave it to a hanke🤷🏾♂️.
@MotorRoseMusic
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Being lazy is being American.
@marveloussoftware1417
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
What puzzled me was why do some months have an 'extra' day; 31 while there's a short month; February. Why didn't they make February 30 days and make a couple of months with 31 days have 30 days.
@WalterHildahl
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
The world is NOT metric, so why count that way??
@spencerhixonauthor
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
I would walk 500 kilometers… Doesn't really roll off the tongue…
@Thorano
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Back in the ’90s, I spent a few weeks working in a cheese packing factory. Every shift, we had to punch in and out, and our hours weren’t tracked the usual way—nope, they were measured in decimal time! So instead of saying I worked 7 hours and 15 minutes, it was logged as a precise 7.25 hours. A small quirk of the job, but one that stuck with me!
@andrehenkel1981
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Did you knew, Americans actually have the metric system, …they use 9mm at school! 🤷♂️
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