Reposting bc I dun goofed before
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It's ingrained and arbitrary. The only thing we've found so far for measuring time that doesn't appear to be arbitrary is Planck time, which is so small it has no use in daily life. So if you have to use an arbitrary unit anyway, why make a new arbitrary unit? And while the second, minute, hour, and to a lesser degree month are arbitrary, days and years are not, they are just based on the unique circumstances of when we started observing our world in a scientific manner.
Because whole point of metric is to use powers of ten.
12, 24, and 60 are highly composite numbers and easily divisible by more numbers than 10. Also, if you are doing that, go ahead and redefine degrees in a circle and all that jazz too. Go ahead.
In the days of doing math by hand, that might have mattered.
Let me introduce you to this little thing called a calculator.