• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Bingo. That’s the true advantage of the metric system: everyone uses it. Unit conversion is a highly overrated function.

    Metric time will only catch on if and when we adopt interplanetary travel and are no longer fundamentally tied to the rotation and revolution of a particular rock around a particular star.