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dickfickling on Jan 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swatch Internet Time

I think the idea is that, switching to a decimal system, we would no longer have a use for 7pm - we would just do things at 0.8d

archangel_one on Jan 12, 2014 [–]

Sure, but trying to persuade billions of people to switch to a new system with unclear benefits and no backwards compatibility is not a recipe for success.

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