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I am of the opinion that time should be expressed in base 36, much more subdivideable and allows you to express a given time as a two decimal point number between 0.00 and Z.ZZ
Also as you might have noticed, the latest time in the day is literally the Zs, the clock would be telling you to go the fuck to sleep already.
Much as I think this would be pretty confusing, I love that Z.ZZ thing :-)
I'm trying to work this out though - so what we call 24 hours would now be 36 different blocks of time, 1-12 and A to Z, right? (EDIT - wrong! 0-9, not 1-12, duh...)
So a '36th' of a day (or, actually, let's give it a name... A "Frin"? That'll do) would be equivalent to 24/36 of an hour = 2/3 of an hour = 40 minutes.
However would subdivisions of a Frin also be in base 36? If so, then the 36... Terps, let's say... in a Frin, would each last slightly longer than a minute... 40/36 = 10/9 of a minute = 600/9 = 66.666666... of what we call seconds.
But of course the next subdivision would also be in base 36. So each Terp would have 36... Bops... So a Bop would last as long as a 36th of 66.666666... seconds= 66.66666/36 = 1.85185185... seconds per Bop.
36 Bops make a Terp, 36 Terps make a Frin, 36 Frins make a Day.
What a strange world that'd be!
I'd still call it hours minutes and seconds since it's the same level subdivision,
It'd follow this progression, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, part of the reason I like base 36 counting is because of just how many cool things just happen to come together with it, and the fact that the Alphanumeric set perfectly fits into it is one, another one I like is that "10" is a square that is also the product of two other squares.
But back to specifics, an "hour" is 40 present minutes, a "minute" is 66 and 2/3rds of a second, and a "second" is 1.85185... seconds, or 1 and 23/27ths of a second.
If I had it my way this would be paired with the Sym454 calendar to ultra-regularize everything
Yeah, I screwed up saying 1-12, I meant 0-9 but got mixed up while thinking about the next bit!
Thanks for doing the math.
Not 1-12, but 0-9.
Edit: now that I've spelled it out, O/0 and 1/I/L (for uppercase/lowercase letters) may be problematic.
Duh, yeah of course, oops! :-)