Re: Food Prices topic drift to TIME

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 16:02:16 -0000 (UTC), pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
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I opted for digital watches when my job required that I think in 24
hour time with minute to minute acccuracy, which is much harder and
slower to do with an analong timepiece. I have several watches and all
but my old Scuba Dive watch are on digital 24 hour time, because once
you use 24 hour time, you see how ridiculous 12 hour timekeeping is in
today's world. It is, however, hard to convince people who've used the
12 hour time all their lives.
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I understand why 12 hour time first came into being. It was, of
course, long before digital clocks and watches. An analog 24 hour
timepiece is harder and slower to read accurately than a 12 hour one.
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The later system operations control rooms I worked in had both analog
and a digital 24 hour clocks, but nobody paid any attention to the
analog clocks.
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C'est bon
Soloman

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And I wonder whey we have these weird 12 hour sixty minute times.
Babylonians?
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I would have thought that when the MKS system came along they would have
instituted
10 hour days
100 minutes per hour and
100 seconds per minute
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to go along with meters, kilograms and seconds....
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But I think the societal re-tooling would be far too great a task....
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(cue Jeff L's fabulous research skills...)
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pH in Aptos

The decimal system became popular because we (most of us) have ten
fingers. As a programmer, I think I'd prefer a hexidecimal system
where we also use our earlobes, nostrils, and eyebrows.

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C'est bon
Soloman