A proposed better calendar that would have made as much sense as converting to the metric system

https://www.mic.com/articles/139584/this-13-month-calendar-proposal-on-reddit-would-make-our-lives-so-much-better

EDIT: turns out that the idea is not so new ... it was called the "International Fixed Calendar" and it was first proposed in 1902
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

https://metric-time.com/

And deci. What's wrong base 10? Why aren't you touching your decilitres.

I'm sure the artist intended to be smart and use metric time as something silly.

The problem is he used regular time.

60 * 60 * 24=86400=>86.4 kseconds where k stands for 1000. Like kilo for 1000 grams. Kilometer for 1000 meters etc.

The comic doesn't make sense...

Why would metric time still use the same seconds? Surely it'd be a different unit that was a nice multiple of 10

Not gonna lie.. i think i would like this unit of time measurement

as a promoter of the kilofoot I about agree and am offended by this comic.

We have 24 hours in a day because the people that came up with the sundial lived around the equator (always half a day off light) and counted in base 12. 12 light hours and 12 dark is our 24 hours. You can count base 12 by using your thumb to count the bones in your finger. 4 fingers with 3 bones each gives you 12.

It's also why we have 60 minutes. They counted with their fingers on one hand to 5, with the other to twelve so you get 60. Why not 144? You make mistakes easily when counting to 12 with both hands.

By now there have been many attempts to launch a different system for time keeping and calenders but it never took hold.

The metric system has one big problem indeed: it's not duodecimal.

You cannot really make all the time units a multiple of 10 to each other as a day, months and a year, for example, are defined by external factors.

You could perhaps change seconds so a day would be exactly 100k seconds, which would make seconds slightly shorter than they now are but that wouldn't really change the fact that a year is 365.25 days and that a month is either 27.32 or 29.53 days depending on how you measure it.