Quote Originally Posted by Foot
I for one am also sick of the 12 month years we have, its just so roman and european!
We should go to that metric time that France tired right after the French Revolution. Ten days a week. Thirty-six weeks a year (every other year-37).

And metric time: ten hours a day, 100 minutes in each hour, 100 seconds a minute. And seconds are 86.4% the length of modern seconds.
Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla
Clocks run on base 12 because 12 was easier to divide than 10, these days a lot of people see that as inconvenient.
I love base 12, it makes so much more sense. You can do half, third, quarter.
Half of 12 is 6, half of 6 is 3, stop.
Third of 12 is 4. Still not a prime number.
Quarter of 12 is 3. 3 is still a useful number yet is small - also one of the only odd numbers that seems complete.
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Half of 10 is 5, stop. Can't divide five, prime number.
Third, can't do...
Quarter, can't do...
A fifth of 10 is 2, and that's really just half backwards.

But we should use some sort of absolute. Like base pi. Or base c (speed of light). Or just a system of prime numbers.