<story><title>Metric Time</title><url>https://metric-time.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Come to think of it, being able to &lt;i&gt;cleanly&lt;/i&gt; divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts is pretty damn handy.</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>I love how the example is super confusing.&lt;p&gt;You sleep 3.33… metric hours.&lt;p&gt;You fall asleep 9:50 metric time.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.&lt;p&gt;But no, it&amp;#x27;s apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?&lt;p&gt;Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1&amp;#x2F;3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nycdotnet</author><text>This is the same reason a point is 1&amp;#x2F;72 on an inch - many factors make convenient typesetting.</text></comment>
<story><title>Metric Time</title><url>https://metric-time.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Come to think of it, being able to &lt;i&gt;cleanly&lt;/i&gt; divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts is pretty damn handy.</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>I love how the example is super confusing.&lt;p&gt;You sleep 3.33… metric hours.&lt;p&gt;You fall asleep 9:50 metric time.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.&lt;p&gt;But no, it&amp;#x27;s apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?&lt;p&gt;Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1&amp;#x2F;3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prometheus76</author><text>Now apply the same logic to measurement, and you&amp;#x27;ll see why it&amp;#x27;s so handy to use a dozenal foot for fabricating things.</text></comment>