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RedDevil · 11-11-2018, 07:24 PM

There's a reason why the real world uses days, months and hours while relying on the metric system for measurement.

Because the length of your stride is irrelevant when measuring out clothes or driving on the highway. But adjusting your wake/sleep interval to the activities in everyday life is very relevant.

Anyway, any system is a system. To claim the system you're used to is better than others is ridiculous. I would not call the metric system superior because I'm used to it.
I call it superior because it is based on a limited set of carefully chosen base units, to make conversion between the properties of the system as logical as possible, instead of a system that contains several non-aligning units for each aspect.

Time for bed now. Good night.

11-11-2018, 07:24 PM	#45 (permalink)
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