Why does a second last… well… a second?

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Who, how and when decided to count to a second and was like “Yup. This is it. This is a second. This is how long a second is. Everybody on Earth will universally agree that this is how long a second is and use it regardless of culture, origin, intelligence or beliefs”?

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They didn’t all agree. other time systems exist, but the most commonly used option gets adopted until it becomes ubiquitous.

For example You could use metric time if you want. https://cable.ayra.ch/metric/

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