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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It doesn't explicitly say it, but that redefines the second to be 1/100,000th of a day.

Doing that would break everything.

That said, I wish speed limits were in m/s. It makes more sense to me.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Miles or kilometers per hour makes sense in the context of travel, you can very easily estimate how long it's going to take to get somewhere.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Ironically, km/h is better for estimation because hours are 3600 seconds. If an hour were 1000 seconds or whatever, it would barely take more effort to calculate with m/s

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was thinking about estimating stopping distances and reaction times. The number of metres you cover every second becomes important then.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

yeah, there was a point in time when we could have. Just now our standards are to ingrained