Like throughout our history we see so many differences between nations like with metric and imperial system, the different alphabet and so on, but how did time stay the same for everyone? Like why is a minute 60 seconds and not like 23.6 inch-seconds in America? Why isn’t there a nation that uses clocks that is based on base 10? Like a day is 10 hours and an hour has 100 minutes and a minute has 100 seconds and so on? What makes time the same across the whole globe?
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Generally, metric replaced older systems because they were incoherent messes. They did try decimal time, but because time is not as much an incoherent mess as say inches/feet/yards/miles, it stayed. Base 60 is a quite convenient base, dating back to ancient sumerians and babylonians. Base 60 survived in degrees of a circle too.
Another angle, clocks were invented by europeans, and the system spread with clocks. I’m sure there were other systems but they were not included when you bought a clock.
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