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[โ€“] joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well the main reason why the metric caught was there were many many mny versions of older systems in place. You may have heard a french inch was different then an English inch. But it was way more complex then just that.

Even in a single country different industries could all use a gallon but have it be different. Need 39 yards of rope for your ship? Well is that paris or vince yards? Also better remember the currency conversion.

Having one system was better since everyone could now agree on how long something was. This is also why metric time failed to catch on. Everyone agreed on days, weeks, years etc etc.

[โ€“] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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.