On Decimal Time

@ruario talks about decimal time, a time system with 10 hours containing 100 minutes each:

=> gemini://ruario.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-12-15_decimal_watch.gmi

Centiday

Funny, I had a similar idea back in the 80s. Except I thought of dividing the day into 100 units, each just under 15 minutes. A centiday. This is a little easier, as each centiday requires only two digits, and the 15-minute quantization is enough to schedule events or make plans. Kind of matches human precision.

Meet you at my house at 72. Right?

Of course, for finer precision you can have hundredths of that, slightly under 9 seconds. Or a thousandth, for just under a second.

But really, centidays should provide enough accuracy for humans.

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