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Yeah, too much of our society is based upon 24 hour time.

The transition is also unlikely to have many benefits. Unlike most of the other units of measure, the everyday conversions are fuzzy. The only exception I've seen is when payroll bean counters expect minute precision converted to decimal hours, which is a pain! Everything in science and engineering tends to be maintained in seconds, which is decimalized anyway so there is no benefit there.

I don't see "metric time" making any headway, particularly since something like universal time would be much more beneficial yet hasn't gained traction.




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