My hope for 2023 is that this will be the year when people start following the advice of the National Institute of Standards and Technology that:
"12 a.m. and 12 p.m. are ambiguous and should not be used"
Everytime you break this rule, a kitten cries.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/times-day-faqs
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@Robminchin I propose all wall clocks be changed to have 24 markings and the mechanisms updated to reflect that. People would get it in no time! 😉
@telorand @Robminchin I always use 24 hour time in all dealings, private and professional. But my real dream is to use Swatch Internet Time.
@sergio_101 @telorand @Robminchin I'm just saying, a centiday is 14.4 minutes. Which is about as much precision as we need for scheduling things. And obviously for more precise purposes you can just go as far down the SI prefixes as you need.
@Turq @sergio_101 @telorand @Robminchin
But why should the day be the SI unit of time. Why not the second (as of course it already is)? We could have kiloseconds and Megaseconds and best of all we could final post speed limits in the actual SI unit of m/s instead of km/h which is a silly unit only used because it was a closer analogy to the imperial miles per hour.
At the very least we could get 10 day weeks. But how many days off and in what order would we make a weekend? 7 days of work followed by 3 off?
@antares @Turq @sergio_101 @telorand 1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hour = 1852 m/hr ≈ 0.5 m/s (within 3%)
They were so close!