Reposting bc I dun goofed before

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 years ago

    It doesn’t explicitly say it, but that redefines the second to be 1/100,000th of a day.

    Doing that would break everything.

    That said, I wish speed limits were in m/s. It makes more sense to me.

    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Miles or kilometers per hour makes sense in the context of travel, you can very easily estimate how long it’s going to take to get somewhere.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Ironically, km/h is better for estimation because hours are 3600 seconds. If an hour were 1000 seconds or whatever, it would barely take more effort to calculate with m/s

      • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I was thinking about estimating stopping distances and reaction times. The number of metres you cover every second becomes important then.