For example,
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
24 hours = 1 day
7 day = 1 week
29-31 days = Month (approx.)
365/366 days = year
It’s like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet…
Edit: just to clarify, I’m more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.
Base ten is trash and a glorious socialist utopia wouldn’t use ivory tower measurements that aren’t actually useful for performing labor.
A base 12 or 60 system is much more flexible for “small” human scale measurements, with base 10 being a bit more useful for “far distances,” for orders of magnitude estimation because of our base10 numbering system, but then going back to a large divisor system for galactic distances. For example a parsec is 648000/pi astronomical units, which isn’t metric in anyway shape or form, but is extremely useful for astronomical calculations.
We have a similar system to that today in America. Skilled Tradesmen will use imperial/base 12 systems for manual work. i.e. Construction, carpentry, etc. as the ability to use thirds and quarters of a unit without relying on fractions and having clearly defined lines on a measuring stick that have those thirds/quarters, is more useful then an arbitrary base 10 measurement that only has 2 divisors. The reason america still uses the “standard” system is that it is useful, not because of “boomers” or whatever.
It’s a discussion I have with a friend sometime… in actuality in the metric system scale of 10 works fine. 12 scale is only necessary for imperial measurements because there’s nothing smaller than an inch, having 3.2 inches literally cannot be represented on a ruler. So you start working with like half inches, quarter inches, even 1/8th of an inch which sounds like a headache. Note that inches are on a scale of 12 but not base 12.
Since in metric you can “create” units as needed (they already exist we just don’t use them most of the time), you can quickly and safely measure 3.2cm. You can also still do division, it just won’t need to be represented by fractions. If you have a 10cm long board and want to cut it in four, each cut will be 2.5cm long, not a quarter of a unit long.
With that level of detail you can get to very minute decimals like 4.52cm, although for most daily uses you don’t need to count anything smaller than mm. The amount of times I’ve had to use um (micrometers) in my life was… 2?
So with this for example
With simple divisions and multiplications I have the ability to achieve any measure I need. I assure you our tradesmen are not any slower or worse than those in the US haha
It also allows a pretty cool conversion since by standard 1l of water weighs 1kg.
I figure you’re probably joking but I don’t think any lab worker does their measurements in fluid ounces and cups 😬
I am joking, but beer is drunk by the pint and brewed by the barrel as Marx intended, though Germany had lost it’s way and started using centiliters, bleh.
That said I am absolutely perfectly adept at the metric system and used it exclusive when I studied chemistry, however for home improvement’s and craftswork, I still use inches/feet.