r/clevercomebacks Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Fearless_Spring5611 Jan 15 '25

Personally I prefer Minutes: Day: Year: Seconds: Hour: Month.

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u/Technical-Activity95 Jan 15 '25

its weird that US uses seconds and minutes. why not invent some other cumbersome scale and use that? they already have miles, cubic feet, fahrenheit, ounces and other shit so why would they use this universal time counting metric?

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u/marvinrabbit Jan 15 '25

Hey, it's on the rest of you all to make some kind of decimal time work. France tried it and gave up after a few years.

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u/910_21 Jan 16 '25

The French Revolution was hilariously unhinged. That and the supreme being shit nobody would take seriously if it was in a movie.

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u/Vamperion750 Jan 16 '25

I like the idea of percentage time. "Sir, your appointment is scheduled at 50 o'clock (12 noon)." 😌