Amarantha > wrote:

(Steve Pope) wrote in

>> Of course, if you're truly commited to metric, you must measure
>> all time intervals in seconds and forget about using minutes and
>> hours. Thus, you smoke your ribs for 14,440 seconds instead of four
>> hours.

>> You call that simpler?

> This is not a valid comparison as we do not have a metric
> time system. If we did there would be metric hours/minutes
> and we would not be counting things in seconds.

Indeed something like this was proposed at one point at the
international standards level -- a proposed metric day would have ten
hours, each with 100 metric minutes, each of those with 100
metric seconds. No country would support the proposal other
than France. Too radical of a changeover.

The result is that the only valid metric unit of time is the second,
and its metric compounds (milliseconds, decaseconds, kiloseconds and
so on, but in practice only milli, micro, nano, and pico are much used).
These comprise time under the metric system.

In 14, maybe 15 kiloseconds we can enjoy those ribs.

Steve