We have different metrics internationally for length/distance, weights, temperature, etc. Why, as far as I know, is there only hours/minutes/seconds for the entire world? Not that I’m complaining, the alternative would be a huge pain in the a**, but I’m curious how that happened over time (sorry about the pun). TIA!
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The correct answer probably is that time units are so deeply relevant for our daily lives that nobody wants to get rid of them. Not for a lack of trying, by the way – the french revolutionaries actually tried to establish a decimal time system, but the acceptance was similar to that of Microsoft Teams as a communications platform for software developers. I also remember when the swiss watch maker “Swatch” attempted to establish a non-timezoned “internet time” in the late 1990s that you probably never heard about for the same reason.
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