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levzettelin on Oct 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Metric Time

If this is called "decimal time", what about "binary time"? You could convert between days and seconds using bit-shift, haha.

levzettelin on Oct 12, 2023 [–]

16 hours in a day

64 minutes in an hour

64 seconds in a minute

This would make seconds 1.31835 times longer then what they are now.

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