I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.

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    What sort of cursed units do you use that have dates in them

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      Dates? Swatch replaces seconds, minutes, and hours with .beats. Metres per second (used in scientific contexts), minutes per kilometre (used by runners), and kilometres per hour (used in most other contexts) would all be unusable under Swatch time.

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        If we were using beats, it would be meters per .beat I guess. Many physical constants would be different numbers but that’s about it

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          but that’s about it

          That’s not how people work. You think Americans are stubborn about our customary units? Try damn-near everyone (including many Americans) with SI.

          Time in particular is unlikely to be significantly reworked because you can only push the inconsistencies out so far. So you divide the day into a thousand beats. Great. A year is still not an integer number of days, and weeks and months are only loosely based on physical (lunar) phenomena at all.

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        (measure) per (new measure of time)

        It would be very inconvenient at first, but it doesn’t change the math.