Fat Tony@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agoEarth got an update. What small features have been improved, added or fixed?message-squaremessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1151arrow-down1message-squareEarth got an update. What small features have been improved, added or fixed?Fat Tony@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agomessage-square99fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up57arrow-down1·10 months agoRotation now set to “standard” 24 hours exactly. No more wonky 23.99873 hours screwing up automated functions every 12 years.
minus-squarementuri@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·10 months agoAnd a year is exactly 360 days. Or maybe 364 so there are a perfect 52 weeks in the year.
minus-squareandrewAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-210 months agoWhy not take this opportunity to make time base 10 for all meaningful measures? 100 weeks a year. 10 months wherein the moon orbits once. 10 hours per day. Or even just base 2. I guess it probably matters most that planetary bodies have evenly divisible periods and we can figure out the rest.
Rotation now set to “standard” 24 hours exactly. No more wonky 23.99873 hours screwing up automated functions every 12 years.
And a year is exactly 360 days. Or maybe 364 so there are a perfect 52 weeks in the year.
Why not take this opportunity to make time base 10 for all meaningful measures?
100 weeks a year. 10 months wherein the moon orbits once. 10 hours per day.
Or even just base 2. I guess it probably matters most that planetary bodies have evenly divisible periods and we can figure out the rest.