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Thought I was in unpopular opinion for a second there. Sorry, I meant for a 1/60th of a minute.
Actually, the second is the base unit.
I didn't claim it isn't. 🤔
Which is particurlaly funny given that it was abolished when the metric system was created. During the revolution, we decided we would have decimal time instead of those ancient babylonian units. It was reverted a few years later, but the metric system was originally designed for having 100k seconds per day