Part of the reason the republic wanted to use metric time was to strip power away from the church. After all, you couldn't go to church on Sunday if you didn't know which day was Sunday
Kévin lim "Checkmate atheists " is an internet meme mocking Christian people who use utterly basic and undeveloped arguments to disprove atheism. For example, watching a video about the human heart's mechanisms, there were some laughable Christians saying that this is proof of God's wisdom and thus existence and seriously saying "checkmate atheists". Atheists and also non atheists started using this phrase everywhere to make fun of Christian keyboard warriors.
In Russia, they use the Gregorian Calendar for business purposes, but use the old Julian Calendar for the Russia Orthodox Church. Currently, there is a 13-day difference (December 25 on their calendar is January 7 on our calendar). To top it off, before Britain switched to the Gregorian Calendar, New Year's Day was not on January 1st, but on March 25th. Thus George Washington was officially born on February 11, 1731 (O.S.), which under the reform, became February 22, 1732 (N.S.).
Its also the date 1066 wen England was conquered by William the Conqueror, you know the normal French subject Duke who by proxy made kingdom of England be a vassal to the french kings, and the reason that started that 900year long rivalry between the two nations.
Just a little clear-up : The English word "decades", in its usual meaning (i.e. a group of 10 years) translates as "décennies" in French , so that's why we didn't have any problem having something else called "décades".
"100 seconds" is better. Use of small prefixes like hecto-, centi-, etc. is considered not encourageable usage by metrication experts, also NIST. The 1000 prefixes (starting at kilo- and milli- for large and small, respectively) are considered the better ones to use unless they'd be too difficult (namely for volumes, where the difference from mm^3 to m^3 is a billion, not 1000!).
Actually, centimeters is extremely useful for most things, although maybe not engineering and science. Other than centimeters 'centi-' isn't used much (At least in Australia)
@@patrickcorby1423 in mainland Europe, most drinks bottles have their volume printed in centilitres (cl) rather than millilitres, (ml). It's a bit weird to visit and see a soda can be called 33 instead of 330, but it's easy enough to deal with. The only place I can think of that regularly uses deci is decibels, but I think most people don't even realise the base unit is actually bels, instead thinking the entire name is decibel. But I can see why, "+5dB" is easier than "+0.5B" and you encounter those magnitudes a lot with audio and broadcasting. But yeah, the x10/x100 prefixes are a lot less used than the x1000 ones, and of course after milli/kilo they stop incrementing in x10 intervals altogether.
@@kaitlyn__L Oh really? I never knew they use centilitres to measure drinks anywhere! That's quite interesting actually. Also, I never really thought about the decibel thing, although I guess it makes sense once you think about it.
It reminds me of creating months and calendars for homebrew Dungeons & Dragons settings. You set out to make it easily understandable but, at the end of the day, it’s just a needlessly overcomplicated mess that no one really uses.
An interesting thing to note though, is that decimal time is _still used,_ and it's used by almost everyone. It's just only used when you get into sub-second units: milliseconds, nanoseconds, and so on
It'll be interesting what happens when we have an actual colony on Mars. The initial explorers will almost certainly just use the Earth-standard clock/calendar, with the day having a few more minutes (as Mars scientists working on Mars rovers often use now,) and use "Sol _x_," for day-tracking, again, kind of like Mars scientists working on Mars rovers use now, and as depicted in _The Martian_, but once people are there more than 1000 days, and especially when there are multiple different colony locations, a proper local-standard will be needed.
I'm pretty sure at that point we would be using some type of modified Atomic time or Unix time as well as copying months over to help better match with a Martian year.
The thing is a mars colony will be very earth and whatever-country(s)-founded-that-colony centric for a long time so even if a local time measurement is created people born there would still be taught about earth time as well
Julius Ceasar : "Ahh yes finally a perfect calendar with no more stupid extra days/celebration days." The French: "Lets make a decimal calendar WITH EXTRA DAYS, we can call them festivity days" Julius Ceasar: "Am I a joke to you?" Gregor: "what's going on in he--- by God..."
It's also important to note that 24 and 60 are both highly composite numbers, meaning that they have more divisors than any number before them. This means that you can divvy up time much easier with numbers like 60 and 24 than with, say, 10.
The perks of the decimal system is that it is a decimal system. Sure 10 can’t be divided by 4 and such, but 100 can, it can even be divided by 5, 10 and 25. And 1000 can be divided by 8. And when you pass 3rd grade and get into fractions, then 1/3 of a unit isn’t big deal. 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/10. That’s because there’s a decimal system, so you can always use a smaller accurate unit. For example; 1 meter 24 cm and 7mm is 1,247m. As accurate as needed. Since about 99% of normal live we don’t give a shit about that, we simply say a pint, a cup or whatever, whilst knowing a pint is 500ml, a cup is 250ml and everyone is happy.
There was a small comment chain in a video about the usa's usage of F vs C°... -"Hipsters use Kelvin" -"Gangsters use Rankine" -"Idiots use Fahrenheit"
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Ah yes..... France during the revolution was a craaaaazzzzy time indeed: changing unit measurements, new calendars, transforming churches into "Temples of Reason" and putting statues of Marat as crucifixes, the "Cult of the Supreme Being", the "Reign of Terror", the "Great Terror", revolutions and insurgencies against the previous revolutions, etc. And all of that, while the french revolutionaries were waging war with a good chunk of the european major powers.... and the french defeated them.
@@gs7828 I was talking about the irony of of losing most of it's gains, not about anything else. And yes I must say the Napoleonic era was glorious *BUT* there was nothing nice about the terrors. DYK Robespierre was a dunce compared to the educated elite and when his chance came to actually rule France he proved to be a blithering imbecile. Which doesn't mean I favor continuity or discontinuity of the monarchy. I prefer to be a student of best possible outcomes for all concerned rather than a knee jerk advocate. DYK Napoleon had recreated the monarchical system, dunce? DYK Napoleon was defeated by Louis XVIII who had spies in Napoleon's army, which Napoleon was determined to eliminate by making an assault on belgium but failed? Do you realize that had Napoleon *not been defeated* he would have remained as emperor with his relatives as kings and queens of the other conquered nations, dunce? Do you think the the Russian communist as proper?DYK that the last king of Italy was deposed by Mussolini's? Do you think Mussolini was turned out better for Italy than had been the monarchy? DYK the italian monarchy in exile facilitated the elimination of Mussolini's regime? You imbecile
also, a good reason in favor of the 24/60/60 system, is that each of those can be divided by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and end up with round numbers, while a base 10 system becomes annoying pretty fast.
In Canada we unofficially use both, we are metric officially but lbs, oz, feet and inches and acres are used most of the time. Other things like meters are used just as much as yards are. Miles are rarely used unless you're talking about how fast a vehicles can go but Km are normally used to measure distance traveled and just general speed reference. All sciences use metric, all basic construction is imperial, and depending on the machines country of manufacture we use both (gotta have two sets of wrenches). For all things related to firearm we use the American system grains not grams. Just a byproduct of us using imperial until like 1976 and having our only neighbour and largest trading partner as the USA.
The reason why Napoleon Bonaparte was depicted as short is that the media and propaganda made him look short, not due to the unit conversions. People make that mistake about history all the time.
As a kid I once wondered why time wasn't reorganised into decimal order. 6,5 days on 3,5 days off always struck me as an awesome balance before I even knew the brevity of a 2 day work weekend. I could easily work 6 12hr days if I could have a half day next then a day to catch up on rest followed by one weekend day to live it up and another to rest and prep for the week ahead.
PBarre yea but a good chunk of those victories were beating around smaller neighbors (like a adult going around punching kids) or kicking empires and kingdoms when they were down (for economic problems or unrest or that their armies were already beaten) and this is evidenced in other wars were good and organized enemies defeated them (for example Prussia) don’t get me wrong they did had some honorable victories but some of them just weren’t fair fights
00:00 Actually Burma is in the process of metrification, and both Burma and Liberia are already de facto metrified, meaning most people use metric units in daily life.
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The Sumerian calendar was based on base 60 because 60 is the small number which can be divided by 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 to give an integer. The day has 24 hours because sun dials only work for the light half of the day, which was divided into 12 because 12 is the lowest number which can be divided by 1,2,3, and 4.
There is no inherent connection between the date or time and the number 10. Date and time are all related to rotations and orbits and cycles. Therefore the most scientific way to count time would be in radians. This would have the advantage of meaning that midday was pi o'clock.
Fun fact : The revolutionary calendar was phased out but not officially abrogated. You can, legally, still use it for writing checks or signing contracts for example.
Every time someone mentions units of measurement they always show that map, but its really not accurate. In the UK for example all of the road signs are written in miles. You can't really say a country doesn't officially or in reality use imperial when its used all over the country like that. And that's before mentioning that milk bottles are measured in pints, and most scales/balances, measuring jugs, and rulers/tapes include both metric and imperial measures.
Officially it was one of the conditions of joining the EU that we use metric but now that we're leaving I don't know what's going to happen. I personally can use both in conversations or day to day living, I even think imperial is easier in that regard however imperial in any kind of science/maths equation is quit hard and standardisation with the rest of the world makes a lot of things so much easier.
Lensy6 Imperial is fine for idiomatic purposes--ie "I've been walking for miles" sounds a little bit nicer than "kilometres." Same shit for telling someone your approximate height, feet and inches rolls of the tongue in a more casual way. You'd only use metric if you knew exactly what your height was to the nearest centimetre. On the road I don't believe imperial causes problems; the road signs already use miles and it seems like a bit of a waste of time to change them all to metric at this point. Most people are so bad at approximating crude measurements that they just look at their speedometers and determine "I need to slow down/speed up" regardless the reading being in miles/km... the only time the dual measurement thing gets annoying is when you're talking about mathematical or scientific concepts with someone who may be using the opposite system to you
Metric can roll off the tongue pretty easily if you know how to use it, saying you're 5' 5" isn't any harder than saying you're 1-65 (1 meter, 65 centimeters). And if you're working with estimates, unless you're gonna use fractions of an inch (which makes the first point be completely in favour of metric), being off by one or two inches is a bigger error ratio than being off by one or two centimeters.
Atrid I agree, metric is easiest for cooking or doing any fine measurements. The units of measurement in metric are infinitely divisible without use of a calculator. Also, metric has a neat property of approximate direct conversion between volume and weight in the case of water. Trying to make bread using imperial would be more difficult for example. You can't just say "okay I used half a pound of flour, therefore I need to add in a third of that of water in square inches." Doesn't work...
to be fair, the names of the months of the French Revolutionary Calendar were really cool and badass-sounding, like Thermidor, Fructidor, Vendemiaire, and all the rest.
Perks of being in the Discord. Nice video. When I was younger I thought, "Why no metric time." But I never looked into it much. Clearly I missed out though on an interesting story.
There was a second attemt with "Internet time" in the late 90s. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, it did not catch on then either. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Chris Beaudoin Well, the poor working class did participate and did their fair share of yelling in the street, but the people who theorized and led the revolution were members of the bourgeoisie. They did get the support of a large part of the peasants and the working class, but the real fight for power was indeed between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy (the aristocracy and the church).
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Not really. It's more convenient for everyday use, because it's more accurate to the nth degree
@Zachary Mate, look up the history of Fahrenheit. It started out as a pretty neat scale for mercury and then it just went off the rails and... just no. It's more arbitrary than Celsius.
Lol how is 0 being cold and 100 being hot confusing ? Metric sucks for anything outside of a lab or school, that's why we don't use it after we learn it in school unless your job calls for it
bigmoney3656 I'm reading "we" as "we, Americans" and no, the rest of the world, including Europe, Latin America, the whole Asia, the whole Africa and the whole Oceania uses Celsius and only Celsius. The US is the only country in the world that uses Fahrenheit.
@@JoseFernandes-js7ep the word Decimate in english comes from the word "Décimer" in french that means killing many people, Décimer comes from the Latin word "Decimare" which means sentence to death 1 out of 10 people
Mrbrain bob "ricains" is the equivalent to frenchie for americans, it's a surname we give you as it is the shorter version of "americain" which means american people.
I know you are french, so i will writen in french, else go to google translate. Chez les anglais, ils appellent cette période la commune de france, surtout depuis certains jeux, un mod sur HOI4 le montre bien)
Actually, I have no ties to France in anyway (I'm actually Swedish), I have a basic understanding of the language. Anyhow, thank you! But I must ask, how do I seem french?
We still technically use metric time in some cases (ish). Tracking/billing time, we'd use 1.5 hours for 1h30 minutes. It would have made some sense to keep Metric time for some simplicity In billing
Sounds like they did communism before it was cool. I mean with a revolution, killing the aristocracy, denouncing the church, social reforms, sounds exactly like 1917 Russia.
Technically seconds (which make the basic of our time system) is a SI (metric) base unit. A better term would be base 10 time, which really is what this is. Otherwise great video.
No. Generally SI units are the base units and the derived units. The meter is the base unit for length while the unit for voltage, the volt, is derived from the kilogram, meter, second and the Ampere. The inch is not defined as a base unit nor a derived unit.
The Fahrenheit/Centigrade (Celsius if you must) debate has little to do with decimalisation/metrication. It's got more to do with choosing logical fixed points for your scale. If you think the freezing point of a particular solution of salt in water is a reasonable point to choose as zero, who am I to argue? Personally it seems more logical to me that it should be the freezing point of pure water.
Yes. Although a "milligrade" scale or even a 200-degree scale instead of 100 may have been better as it gives finer resolution while maintaining a whole number of units. One of the reasons Fahrenheit is held on to is that its unit is slightly smaller, which means a one-unit increment doesn't make as much of a temperature change, and thus it's easier to adjust more finely. And while of course you can use 0.1 degree on the Celsius scale as well, so either scale can represent temperatures to any accuracy, when making things like digital thermostats it seems whole degrees tend to be used, and I got to experience firsthand a Celsius thermostatted device when I went to China and I found it a bit annoying that I could not get it to right in that middle between about 22 and 23 C where it'd be the most comfortable (22.5 C would have been just right.). That little bit helps, and who can blame the display/device designer for wanting to make it a simple whole number display? That said, Celsius, and even better KELVINS, are the standard across science and technology, and if you put the 1/10th or even 1/2 degree increments on all devices, it'd still work out. But I can also see why some would prefer the Fahrenheit system even though yes the "zero" as having no obvious referent is silly. It at least guards against the tendency to make a simple thermostat.
Fahrenheit's approach was to set 0 at the coldest temperature a human was likely to encounter (within the limits of his home in 18th century Danzig). Why would anyone set 0 at the freezing point of water when you're so frequently going to need to go below that amount and deal with negative numbers? That runs contrary to the metric system's intent of simplifying calculations. Pure liquid water doesn't even freeze at 0 degrees celsius anyway. It requires trace amounts of common impurities to do that. If it's truly pure, it can get down as far as negative-48 degrees celsius without freezing. That's part of the explanation for why clouds don't plummet down upon our heads in temperatures significantly below freezing. Whereas Fahrenheit's ammonium chloride solution had a stable, consistent temperature to represent zero, even if that temperature was somewhat arbitrarily matched to the coldest day recorded in northern Germany.
Even though I’m sort of a metric snob, or more precisely an SI snob, I prefer the 24 hour day we have because it can be divided into thirds, sixths, ninth’s, and twelfths. Whereas if for example, you try to convert the 8-hour day into decimal time it would be 3 hours, 33 minutes, and 33.33… seconds into infinity. So try to imagine a job site where there’s three shifts, how would you arrange it in dividing the workday into three equal parts using the metric clock? Although I much prefer to use the 24-hour system instead of using AM and PM. So it’s more convenient to say for example: 1800 hundred hours instead of 6 PM. Although when I was in the Navy we never said “hours” but just 1800.
That's why America uses it, because of Britain, the imperial system has been part of America sive she was a colony, And we drive on the right because fuck you.
The UK officially changed to metric in 1970, but it fucked up and people were suddenly 200m tall in their passports. No one had a clue how to convert units. Only the currency managed to be truly reformed.
Honestly it makes more sense than 60-60-24-7-12-365 Then we get into months. The order is what again? 31 28 30 31 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 31? Yeah that's easy to do math with. Our ancestors were drunk 90% of the time and now we are stuck with this weirdness
Ask Julius Caesar, he dreamt it up (the previous Roman calendar was even weirder (10 months per year or maybe 12 depending on how they felt that year and a nine day week).
Ok, the metric calendar is ridiculous. But, metric clock seems to make sense, given that even under a 60/60/24 clock, a second is defined not as one 60th of a minute, but as an arbitrary (albeit precise) number of oscillations of a single atom of Caesium. Surely a metric second could be quantified in a similar manner.
The thing about that is this though: the second has existed since clocks have existed, which was a couple of centuries before we found out that Cesium even existed. So we came up with the unit, and we found something that could coordinate with the unit.
1:19 I'm sceptical about this being the reason for the confusion regarding Napoleon's height. For one, the difference between French and English feet is, as shown, rather small. Secondly, I've heard several times that he the confusion stems from political cartoons, Lord Nelson and/or fracophobia; and that while he was taller than the average Frenchman of his time, Napoleon was shorter than the average Englishman.
@@@MrGREY-bs9lu Why base a time system on things that superstitious goat-herders saw in the sky? Most of them were stoned half the time anyway.. :joy: We know that zodiac signs have no meaning at all
@@uweinhamburg But, the trick is we aren't basing a time system on those nonsensical superstitions in particular. Instead, time is based on what naturally occurs and repeats every time the earth comes full circle of the sun. Metric time would work, but many new clocks would have to be made. I can't imagine big ben chiming at ten.
@@MrGREY-bs9lu Time measurement today is based on a second defined as "the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 s−1 or Hz" But that doesn't change your general idea. time measurement is based on a natural phenomenon. Decimalization has little to do with it as this definition could be adapted to any purpose. The international system of units just works..
Supershadow301 I know but if you want to make exact measures for any physical phenomenon/concept you need to use the Kelvin and the transformation is kinda simple
I had a metric clock app on my phone years ago but the app wasn't updated so longer working. I still keep time in a day using Star Trek's Star Dates .0 - .9 system. The annoying thing is I have to mentally convert imperial time into Star Dates.
For all who haven't seen it. Google "Why the US doesn't use metric(Because of pirates)" or something like that. It's a really interresting story actually.
I remember there was an AP Euro DBQ on this, and it was really interesting. One of the other things that caused it to fail was that workers still got the same length of a weekend, even though the week was three days longer, meaning a lot less rest. Also, all of the churches were converted into "temples of reason," filled with propaganda for the regime and the calendar. There were a few other things, but overall it was just kooky
"The religious population of France would ha e to deal woth TWO different calendars, TWO different ways of keeping time-" Jews and Muslims: *signature look of superiority*
Clément Lefèvre It is a Révolution, and everyone do not share your point of view about it. The Commune was the first attemp of a socialist revolution, so it’s kind of important.
Part of the reason the republic wanted to use metric time was to strip power away from the church. After all, you couldn't go to church on Sunday if you didn't know which day was Sunday
There's no such thing as the "metric time". The Republican calendar was a huge fail.
You can if you go to church every day
Checkmate atheists
@JayzOned C WTF did this go with atheism ? Pretty sure you don't know what is atheism either.
Kévin lim "Checkmate atheists " is an internet meme mocking Christian people who use utterly basic and undeveloped arguments to disprove atheism. For example, watching a video about the human heart's mechanisms, there were some laughable Christians saying that this is proof of God's wisdom and thus existence and seriously saying "checkmate atheists". Atheists and also non atheists started using this phrase everywhere to make fun of Christian keyboard warriors.
One French inch is 1.066 English inches? That's a funny coincidence.
Oh i didnt see that comming! X)
Damn haha 😂
oh yeh i see what you mean
pecu alex Nope 1066 French invasion of England
he wasent wrong he just dident mention that
"The church religiously uses the Gregorgian calendar" ....yeah I'd assume the church would religiously use it lol
In Russia, they use the Gregorian Calendar for business purposes, but use the old Julian Calendar for the Russia Orthodox Church. Currently, there is a 13-day difference (December 25 on their calendar is January 7 on our calendar). To top it off, before Britain switched to the Gregorian Calendar, New Year's Day was not on January 1st, but on March 25th. Thus George Washington was officially born on February 11, 1731 (O.S.), which under the reform, became February 22, 1732 (N.S.).
1 French = 1.066 English
I see what you did there, France.
Sam Huddy Thank you for that. I didn't know English people had a bigger eggplant.
+Sixestla uhm, that would mean it takes 1,066 English units for one French unit, i.e. the British unit is shorter.
Its also the date 1066 wen England was conquered by William the Conqueror, you know the normal French subject Duke who by proxy made kingdom of England be a vassal to the french kings, and the reason that started that 900year long rivalry between the two nations.
England is the first french colony, Ironic
@@Unpseudopascommelesautres the normans werent originally french
Just a little clear-up : The English word "decades", in its usual meaning (i.e. a group of 10 years) translates as "décennies" in French , so that's why we didn't have any problem having something else called "décades".
The French really tried to reinvent the wheel on this one.
Viriathus Shepherd-Dux Or just over complicate things as always.
@@MrSupercar55 "as always"
Yeaah metric units too are so "complicated" compared with unpractical traditionnal units.
They tried to reinvent the wheel, but all they really did was to run over their own feet.
ben trimble
More like made a square
i can understand decimal time but the calendar is weird
"What do you think about decimal time?"
"Give me a hectosecond to think about it!"
"100 seconds" is better. Use of small prefixes like hecto-, centi-, etc. is considered not encourageable usage by metrication experts, also NIST. The 1000 prefixes (starting at kilo- and milli- for large and small, respectively) are considered the better ones to use unless they'd be too difficult (namely for volumes, where the difference from mm^3 to m^3 is a billion, not 1000!).
Actually, centimeters is extremely useful for most things, although maybe not engineering and science. Other than centimeters 'centi-' isn't used much (At least in Australia)
@@patrickcorby1423 in mainland Europe, most drinks bottles have their volume printed in centilitres (cl) rather than millilitres, (ml). It's a bit weird to visit and see a soda can be called 33 instead of 330, but it's easy enough to deal with.
The only place I can think of that regularly uses deci is decibels, but I think most people don't even realise the base unit is actually bels, instead thinking the entire name is decibel. But I can see why, "+5dB" is easier than "+0.5B" and you encounter those magnitudes a lot with audio and broadcasting.
But yeah, the x10/x100 prefixes are a lot less used than the x1000 ones, and of course after milli/kilo they stop incrementing in x10 intervals altogether.
@@kaitlyn__L Oh really? I never knew they use centilitres to measure drinks anywhere! That's quite interesting actually.
Also, I never really thought about the decibel thing, although I guess it makes sense once you think about it.
mike4ty4 Centi- is pretty used in here, tho, also hecta-
Why couldn't France stop time all together like Dio.
We do, but you don't see it precisely because the time is stopped ;)
@@andredulac4456 Oh? You assume I don't have a time related Stand do you?
I think because that would cause "Fever Dreams" ;)
D-DIO!
@@samuraijackoff5354 Ho Ho Mukatte kuru no ka?
All the Revolutionnary month of metric time:
Autumn
Vendémiaire
Brumaire
Frimaire
Winter
Nivôse
Pluviôse
Ventôse
Spring
Germinal
Floréal
Prairial
Summer
Messidor (dont laugh)
THERMIDOR (my favorite)
Fructidor
Cringe lmao
Sounds really nice
I like how they are named after things that occur during that season, it's all so logical and neat it's almost a shame it didn't work out.
It reminds me of creating months and calendars for homebrew Dungeons & Dragons settings. You set out to make it easily understandable but, at the end of the day, it’s just a needlessly overcomplicated mess that no one really uses.
Man, Thermidor was badass
There was a metric clock in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent SF film, Metropolis.
Actually starting on the Equinox would mean it would be on the same day on that calendar just that it doesn't match YOUR calendar.
Yup, that's true.
An interesting thing to note though, is that decimal time is _still used,_ and it's used by almost everyone. It's just only used when you get into sub-second units: milliseconds, nanoseconds, and so on
Latin is dead too, but it still has limited use; dead is dead, whether or not nerds still play with it.
@@antitheist3206 Sir, sub-second units are used in every single scoreboard and stopwatch in the world. No need to act high and mighty.
@@bornesone
Only for tracking time under limited circumstances.
You've only proven my point.
except when you measure in frames and the framerate is 60 fps or 30 or whatever
@@groszak1
You know what framerate refers to, right?
3:40 Its VIVE not Viva damn the baguette
Wolfarse le tankiste, was about to correct 😂
And its decimale, not decimal...
In Spanish is correct. XD
So it's in VR?
Wolfarse le tankiste He confused spanish (bad written moreover) with french. It had to be a yankee
It will soon be 2 non metric nations, Myanmar is converting
Everyone in Myanmar and Liberia actually already uses the metric system. It's just that the metric system is not the official system.
So there's really only one shithole holding hanged up to an old system just for being dissident
Wolololo
ViquelOoste we do it because England is metric, we do everything the exact opposite that England does, just because
Nick Renda But the system was made by the English, Lol
It'll be interesting what happens when we have an actual colony on Mars.
The initial explorers will almost certainly just use the Earth-standard clock/calendar, with the day having a few more minutes (as Mars scientists working on Mars rovers often use now,) and use "Sol _x_," for day-tracking, again, kind of like Mars scientists working on Mars rovers use now, and as depicted in _The Martian_, but once people are there more than 1000 days, and especially when there are multiple different colony locations, a proper local-standard will be needed.
I'm pretty sure at that point we would be using some type of modified Atomic time or Unix time as well as copying months over to help better match with a Martian year.
The thing is a mars colony will be very earth and whatever-country(s)-founded-that-colony centric for a long time so even if a local time measurement is created people born there would still be taught about earth time as well
There is already Mars Sol Time, which is 39 minutes longer than earth time, used by the rover scientists
Julius Ceasar : "Ahh yes finally a perfect calendar with no more stupid extra days/celebration days."
The French: "Lets make a decimal calendar WITH EXTRA DAYS, we can call them festivity days"
Julius Ceasar: "Am I a joke to you?"
Gregor: "what's going on in he--- by God..."
The French Republican Calendar makes more sense to me than the Julian calendar
It's also important to note that 24 and 60 are both highly composite numbers, meaning that they have more divisors than any number before them. This means that you can divvy up time much easier with numbers like 60 and 24 than with, say, 10.
The perks of the decimal system is that it is a decimal system. Sure 10 can’t be divided by 4 and such, but 100 can, it can even be divided by 5, 10 and 25. And 1000 can be divided by 8.
And when you pass 3rd grade and get into fractions, then 1/3 of a unit isn’t big deal. 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/10. That’s because there’s a decimal system, so you can always use a smaller accurate unit. For example; 1 meter 24 cm and 7mm is 1,247m. As accurate as needed.
Since about 99% of normal live we don’t give a shit about that, we simply say a pint, a cup or whatever, whilst knowing a pint is 500ml, a cup is 250ml and everyone is happy.
Thomas Wepfer fractions can be real handy tho like try and solve a zeta function with just decimals
"Having to use two calendars was too much"... and I'm just looking over at how calendars work in various South Asian countries...
there's the gregorian one, then the several religious and cultural ones. like, hindu, sikh, islamic and various other lunar ones
@@HN-kr1nf The calendar made by a Pope to replace the Roman Calendar isn't a religious one?
@@NimhLabs imo not really as it's now used by most people regardless of religion
There was a small comment chain in a video about the usa's usage of F vs C°...
-"Hipsters use Kelvin"
-"Gangsters use Rankine"
-"Idiots use Fahrenheit"
Who needs those damn measurements, I can step outside and determine the weather on my own thank you.
Anyone who uses Kelvin in everyday use is an idiot. Fahrenheit or Celsius is way more applicable to everyday life.
And those who want to be really different use Réaumur.
AGiantFurFag KillMe i bet the scale is:
Jack Frost did a big yiff
Holy fuck im in Canada
Freezing
Cold
Cool
Warm
Hot
Boiling
Sahara desert
And Goddamn are we inside a fucking volcano right now?
Normal people use Celsius.
Ah yes..... France during the revolution was a craaaaazzzzy time indeed: changing unit measurements, new calendars, transforming churches into "Temples of Reason" and putting statues of Marat as crucifixes, the "Cult of the Supreme Being", the "Reign of Terror", the "Great Terror", revolutions and insurgencies against the previous revolutions, etc.
And all of that, while the french revolutionaries were waging war with a good chunk of the european major powers.... and the french defeated them.
"...and the french defeated them" and then lost to them, losing almost all it had gained for a brief moment in it's time of mania
@@13gladius28 true but still pretty impressive considering what a giant disaster the country was embroiled in so far.
@Mohan Sandal wew that's what we call a -salty- bold declaration
@@13gladius28 Liberalism and Enlightenment spread all across Europe. It was a huge success and advanced our societies at a rapid pace.
@@gs7828 I was talking about the irony of of losing most of it's gains, not about anything else. And yes I must say the Napoleonic era was glorious *BUT* there was nothing nice about the terrors. DYK Robespierre was a dunce compared to the educated elite and when his chance came to actually rule France he proved to be a blithering imbecile. Which doesn't mean I favor continuity or discontinuity of the monarchy. I prefer to be a student of best possible outcomes for all concerned rather than a knee jerk advocate. DYK Napoleon had recreated the monarchical system, dunce? DYK Napoleon was defeated by Louis XVIII who had spies in Napoleon's army, which Napoleon was determined to eliminate by making an assault on belgium but failed? Do you realize that had Napoleon *not been defeated* he would have remained as emperor with his relatives as kings and queens of the other conquered nations, dunce? Do you think the the Russian communist as proper?DYK that the last king of Italy was deposed by Mussolini's? Do you think Mussolini was turned out better for Italy than had been the monarchy? DYK the italian monarchy in exile facilitated the elimination of Mussolini's regime? You imbecile
also, a good reason in favor of the 24/60/60 system, is that each of those can be divided by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and end up with round numbers, while a base 10 system becomes annoying pretty fast.
It's also interesting how he made up new names for the days of a week while still using Latin roots.
0:36 The solar day is 24 hours there is no rounding up. 23.9345 is the stellar day which is in essence about 24 * 365/366
> French Commune used metric time
METRIC TIME IS THE TIME KEEPING OF THE WORKING MAN I SEE, SEIZE THE MEANS OF ... SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM
In Canada we unofficially use both, we are metric officially but lbs, oz, feet and inches and acres are used most of the time. Other things like meters are used just as much as yards are. Miles are rarely used unless you're talking about how fast a vehicles can go but Km are normally used to measure distance traveled and just general speed reference. All sciences use metric, all basic construction is imperial, and depending on the machines country of manufacture we use both (gotta have two sets of wrenches). For all things related to firearm we use the American system grains not grams.
Just a byproduct of us using imperial until like 1976 and having our only neighbour and largest trading partner as the USA.
Even in quebec all you said is true, old people wich i know worked in handy work and knew only of imperial
The reason why Napoleon Bonaparte was depicted as short is that the media and propaganda made him look short, not due to the unit conversions. People make that mistake about history all the time.
I thought in the US the volume of water was how much coke can fit in it I actually used to think this when I was young
Prussiaball 609 like... cocaine? Or soda?
Raptorguy3 soda
I'm going to try and measure with a bottle of coke
Prussiaball 609 Which size bottle? 2 litre or 330ml?
Neo2266. What are you idiots on about????
do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in france?
el agente de medianoche CHEESE BURGER
I don't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
Etrune it's a quarter pound of burger
Because McDonalds
They call it a مدقة الربع مع الجبن
As a kid I once wondered why time wasn't reorganised into decimal order. 6,5 days on 3,5 days off always struck me as an awesome balance before I even knew the brevity of a 2 day work weekend. I could easily work 6 12hr days if I could have a half day next then a day to catch up on rest followed by one weekend day to live it up and another to rest and prep for the week ahead.
I didn’t think they could do it but the french even messed up time.
Andrew T.K.T Pawlowski But it's most victorious country in world 😉
Spartame • no, that’s England or America.
No, in terms of war win/loss ratio France is a bit higher than England and leagues ahead of the US.
PBarre yea but a good chunk of those victories were beating around smaller neighbors (like a adult going around punching kids) or kicking empires and kingdoms when they were down (for economic problems or unrest or that their armies were already beaten) and this is evidenced in other wars were good and organized enemies defeated them (for example Prussia) don’t get me wrong they did had some honorable victories but some of them just weren’t fair fights
How about we measure victorious-ness by head to head wars.
England < France < Germany < England < USA < Vietnam < France
The actual length of the second as the base unit of time makes sense since it is roughly equivalent to one heartbeat at a normal resting heart rate.
0:35 it is misleading to show a day is 23.9345 hours, since day most people care is the solar day not the sidereal day.
oh using science to explain it...ur a clever little man
You are right. The (solar) day has 24 hours and the rotation period (sidereal "day") is 23h 56m 4.100s.
12th that too much number, I agree that people today would rather use solar system
It's not misleading if people are just ignorant
We care about seasons though
00:00 Actually Burma is in the process of metrification, and both Burma and Liberia are already de facto metrified, meaning most people use metric units in daily life.
1:23 they just can't forget about Hastings can they!
What’s the song behind this? It’s super familiar but I can’t put my finger on it
sounds like something from the Fable games
Have you tried it with your feet?¿
I know it is from Kevin Macleod. As for which song, I don’t know... just search “The Cannery” by Kevin Macleod, and in just a short while you will have browsed through 100 different songs (all by the same guy) that you didn’t know the name of. It’s crazy, if on TH-cam, there is a background song with unknown name, search Kevin Macleod.
REMEMBER: IF IN DOUBT, ALWAYS SEARCH KEVIN MACLEOD!
Quinton Neal Kevin MacLeod
The Sumerian calendar was based on base 60 because 60 is the small number which can be divided by 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 to give an integer. The day has 24 hours because sun dials only work for the light half of the day, which was divided into 12 because 12 is the lowest number which can be divided by 1,2,3, and 4.
U want
There is no inherent connection between the date or time and the number 10. Date and time are all related to rotations and orbits and cycles. Therefore the most scientific way to count time would be in radians.
This would have the advantage of meaning that midday was pi o'clock.
and then we can talk about time as a percentage of 2pi radians in a day - that still boils down to decimal time
Fun fact : The revolutionary calendar was phased out but not officially abrogated. You can, legally, still use it for writing checks or signing contracts for example.
hi have you ever eat a clock
Is very time consuming
LOL
me an intelectual : ChRonOphaGUs
It was pretty surreal watching this joke go from a normal joke to a “memer man” style of joke
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This was a great idea honestly. I wish it would’ve stuck around
Every time someone mentions units of measurement they always show that map, but its really not accurate. In the UK for example all of the road signs are written in miles. You can't really say a country doesn't officially or in reality use imperial when its used all over the country like that.
And that's before mentioning that milk bottles are measured in pints, and most scales/balances, measuring jugs, and rulers/tapes include both metric and imperial measures.
Officially it was one of the conditions of joining the EU that we use metric but now that we're leaving I don't know what's going to happen. I personally can use both in conversations or day to day living, I even think imperial is easier in that regard however imperial in any kind of science/maths equation is quit hard and standardisation with the rest of the world makes a lot of things so much easier.
Lensy6
Imperial is fine for idiomatic purposes--ie "I've been walking for miles" sounds a little bit nicer than "kilometres." Same shit for telling someone your approximate height, feet and inches rolls of the tongue in a more casual way. You'd only use metric if you knew exactly what your height was to the nearest centimetre.
On the road I don't believe imperial causes problems; the road signs already use miles and it seems like a bit of a waste of time to change them all to metric at this point. Most people are so bad at approximating crude measurements that they just look at their speedometers and determine "I need to slow down/speed up" regardless the reading being in miles/km... the only time the dual measurement thing gets annoying is when you're talking about mathematical or scientific concepts with someone who may be using the opposite system to you
Metric can roll off the tongue pretty easily if you know how to use it, saying you're 5' 5" isn't any harder than saying you're 1-65 (1 meter, 65 centimeters).
And if you're working with estimates, unless you're gonna use fractions of an inch (which makes the first point be completely in favour of metric), being off by one or two inches is a bigger error ratio than being off by one or two centimeters.
Atrid
I agree, metric is easiest for cooking or doing any fine measurements. The units of measurement in metric are infinitely divisible without use of a calculator. Also, metric has a neat property of approximate direct conversion between volume and weight in the case of water. Trying to make bread using imperial would be more difficult for example. You can't just say "okay I used half a pound of flour, therefore I need to add in a third of that of water in square inches."
Doesn't work...
to be fair, the names of the months of the French Revolutionary Calendar were really cool and badass-sounding, like Thermidor, Fructidor, Vendemiaire, and all the rest.
Perks of being in the Discord. Nice video. When I was younger I thought, "Why no metric time." But I never looked into it much. Clearly I missed out though on an interesting story.
Sad thing is that it would made a lot of thing easier nowadays for programmers (and computer stuff in general) if we keep metric time.
There was a second attemt with "Internet time" in the late 90s. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, it did not catch on then either. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Haha, I'm legitimately going to tell someone I use metric time just to see how they react.
We all would love to, it's just not mainstream
Don’t change time, I’d have to retire my Rolexes.
Yeah, the French Revolution was only a "small thing".
You know, just a few angry poor people. Not much
"Let'em have cake"
Ouinn Ouinn oh, i've always thought of it as the poor people yelling out in the streets
Nah, that's just a typical day in Paris ! For exemple 1st of may 2018 : everywhere in France was quiet and peacefull. In Paris ? Darn civil war.
Chris Beaudoin Well, the poor working class did participate and did their fair share of yelling in the street, but the people who theorized and led the revolution were members of the bourgeoisie. They did get the support of a large part of the peasants and the working class, but the real fight for power was indeed between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy (the aristocracy and the church).
Fahrenheit is a bigger mess than metric time, though.
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Not really. It's more convenient for everyday use, because it's more accurate to the nth degree
@Zachary Mate, look up the history of Fahrenheit. It started out as a pretty neat scale for mercury and then it just went off the rails and... just no. It's more arbitrary than Celsius.
Lol how is 0 being cold and 100 being hot confusing ? Metric sucks for anything outside of a lab or school, that's why we don't use it after we learn it in school unless your job calls for it
bigmoney3656 I'm reading "we" as "we, Americans" and no, the rest of the world, including Europe, Latin America, the whole Asia, the whole Africa and the whole Oceania uses Celsius and only Celsius. The US is the only country in the world that uses Fahrenheit.
Parce qu'apparemment les ricains trouvent que les mesures impériales sont plus intuitives car plus proches des dimensions du corps.
I should have known you were going to reference the Simpsons. That's the first thing that I think of when I think of metric time
Decimate. The word you were looking for was 'Decimate'.
Does that mean killing one out of ten?
@@JoseFernandes-js7ep the word Decimate in english comes from the word "Décimer" in french that means killing many people, Décimer comes from the Latin word "Decimare" which means sentence to death 1 out of 10 people
See ricains? We gave up our measuring systems when we realised they were weird. Now do the same with your "imperial" whatevers
Snowcold nah, I like having convenient measurements tailored to human needs, I'll have my pint when I want it
Snowcold whats a rican
Snowcold also if you belive that then you should give up the french language its useless
Mrbrain bob "ricains" is the equivalent to frenchie for americans, it's a surname we give you as it is the shorter version of "americain" which means american people.
Mrbrain bob Idiot, french language is in the top 10 most spoken language.
3:42 French commune? You mean the Paris Commune right?
I know you are french, so i will writen in french, else go to google translate.
Chez les anglais, ils appellent cette période la commune de france, surtout depuis certains jeux, un mod sur HOI4 le montre bien)
Actually, I have no ties to France in anyway (I'm actually Swedish), I have a basic understanding of the language. Anyhow, thank you! But I must ask, how do I seem french?
McGuignol70 Haha I guess. I saw it as; which term was correct. Interessting nontheless.
McGuignol70 It’s true but the Commune was really an only parisian event
Does it matter?
Liked just because the thumbnail
I’m guessing the 60:60:24 works out to being easy to use with circles because these numbers have lots of factors
I'm kinda sad metric time didn't get established.
Well, every country had his period of eccentricity i guess
Tristan GROZMOL In France our period is more like a millenium..and god knows when it will change
The USA hears you.
Brexit.
Sounds like a good idea actually.
We still technically use metric time in some cases (ish). Tracking/billing time, we'd use 1.5 hours for 1h30 minutes. It would have made some sense to keep
Metric time for some simplicity In billing
That isnt really metric time, that is just translating half of an hour into a number a base ten calculator can understand.
"France once had this little, small thing called the French Revolution"
Once....
Metric time sounds pretty good
Tbh i liked it, but i think the names should be kept
I really like your videos, there's something different about them that makes me wanna hang around more with them
I have somewhat heard of this before. They wanted a 10 day week to get rid of Sundays in order to try and do away with Christianity.
Sounds like they did communism before it was cool. I mean with a revolution, killing the aristocracy, denouncing the church, social reforms, sounds exactly like 1917 Russia.
In Ancient Greece, a week had 9 days so having more than 7 days in a week was not unheard of.
This is perhaps the greatest thumbnail ever created
We don't use imperial units in the US we use customary units. Look it up. They're different.
That is why the rest of the western world switched to the metric system, because we all had different definitions of feet, ounces etc. etc.
No they aren’t. They’re the same thing except for volumes, which are different, but who gives a shit? Just stop using it and we won’t have a problem.
The difference between timekeeping and math is the our timekeeping and our "day" is rooted in nature.
How I hate Napoleon, it would be very better to have decimal time, I wish I could put my phone in decimal time.
I mean, it doesn’t sound that bad, just the whole year system that gets screwed up. but the ten hours, 100 minutes 100 seconds thing makes sense to me
Technically seconds (which make the basic of our time system) is a SI (metric) base unit. A better term would be base 10 time, which really is what this is. Otherwise great video.
Imperial units are defined in terms of metric units. An inch is exactly 2.54 centimeters, so imperial units are SI.
Being defined by a SI unit doesn't make the Imperial system a SI, it's only a comparative method
No. Generally SI units are the base units and the derived units. The meter is the base unit for length while the unit for voltage, the volt, is derived from the kilogram, meter, second and the Ampere.
The inch is not defined as a base unit nor a derived unit.
lets not forget that type size is still using the imperial measurement as well. (points pt) as 72 points equal one inch.
That is limited only in the typographic scope, and is different between countries
And one or two of types are based on the metric system
We actually do use Metric Time. Milliseconds.
When going under the second unit, yeah, in sports seconds are divided into tenths, hundredth and thousands, and so on.
technically that is just because we have no defined time unit below 1 second so we break it up according to the decimal system. not really metric/ SI
The Fahrenheit/Centigrade (Celsius if you must) debate has little to do with decimalisation/metrication. It's got more to do with choosing logical fixed points for your scale.
If you think the freezing point of a particular solution of salt in water is a reasonable point to choose as zero, who am I to argue? Personally it seems more logical to me that it should be the freezing point of pure water.
Yes. Although a "milligrade" scale or even a 200-degree scale instead of 100 may have been better as it gives finer resolution while maintaining a whole number of units. One of the reasons Fahrenheit is held on to is that its unit is slightly smaller, which means a one-unit increment doesn't make as much of a temperature change, and thus it's easier to adjust more finely. And while of course you can use 0.1 degree on the Celsius scale as well, so either scale can represent temperatures to any accuracy, when making things like digital thermostats it seems whole degrees tend to be used, and I got to experience firsthand a Celsius thermostatted device when I went to China and I found it a bit annoying that I could not get it to right in that middle between about 22 and 23 C where it'd be the most comfortable (22.5 C would have been just right.). That little bit helps, and who can blame the display/device designer for wanting to make it a simple whole number display?
That said, Celsius, and even better KELVINS, are the standard across science and technology, and if you put the 1/10th or even 1/2 degree increments on all devices, it'd still work out. But I can also see why some would prefer the Fahrenheit system even though yes the "zero" as having no obvious referent is silly. It at least guards against the tendency to make a simple thermostat.
Fahrenheit's approach was to set 0 at the coldest temperature a human was likely to encounter (within the limits of his home in 18th century Danzig). Why would anyone set 0 at the freezing point of water when you're so frequently going to need to go below that amount and deal with negative numbers? That runs contrary to the metric system's intent of simplifying calculations. Pure liquid water doesn't even freeze at 0 degrees celsius anyway. It requires trace amounts of common impurities to do that. If it's truly pure, it can get down as far as negative-48 degrees celsius without freezing. That's part of the explanation for why clouds don't plummet down upon our heads in temperatures significantly below freezing. Whereas Fahrenheit's ammonium chloride solution had a stable, consistent temperature to represent zero, even if that temperature was somewhat arbitrarily matched to the coldest day recorded in northern Germany.
Even though I’m sort of a metric snob, or more precisely an SI snob, I prefer the 24 hour day we have because it can be divided into thirds, sixths, ninth’s, and twelfths. Whereas if for example, you try to convert the 8-hour day into decimal time it would be 3 hours, 33 minutes, and 33.33… seconds into infinity. So try to imagine a job site where there’s three shifts, how would you arrange it in dividing the workday into three equal parts using the metric clock? Although I much prefer to use the 24-hour system instead of using AM and PM. So it’s more convenient to say for example: 1800 hundred hours instead of 6 PM. Although when I was in the Navy we never said “hours” but just 1800.
In the UK we partially use the imperial system.
Renegade same in Canada. Most people here don't know their height in metres or their weight in kg.
That's why America uses it, because of Britain, the imperial system has been part of America sive she was a colony,
And we drive on the right because fuck you.
Because you have "un balais dans le cul"
The UK officially changed to metric in 1970, but it fucked up and people were suddenly 200m tall in their passports. No one had a clue how to convert units. Only the currency managed to be truly reformed.
Renegade And you partialy have a monarchy too... Semi measures.
Honestly it makes more sense than 60-60-24-7-12-365
Then we get into months.
The order is what again? 31 28 30 31 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 31?
Yeah that's easy to do math with.
Our ancestors were drunk 90% of the time and now we are stuck with this weirdness
Ask Julius Caesar, he dreamt it up (the previous Roman calendar was even weirder (10 months per year or maybe 12 depending on how they felt that year and a nine day week).
Ok, the metric calendar is ridiculous. But, metric clock seems to make sense, given that even under a 60/60/24 clock, a second is defined not as one 60th of a minute, but as an arbitrary (albeit precise) number of oscillations of a single atom of Caesium. Surely a metric second could be quantified in a similar manner.
The thing about that is this though: the second has existed since clocks have existed, which was a couple of centuries before we found out that Cesium even existed. So we came up with the unit, and we found something that could coordinate with the unit.
1:19 I'm sceptical about this being the reason for the confusion regarding Napoleon's height. For one, the difference between French and English feet is, as shown, rather small. Secondly, I've heard several times that he the confusion stems from political cartoons, Lord Nelson and/or fracophobia; and that while he was taller than the average Frenchman of his time, Napoleon was shorter than the average Englishman.
Another great video tigerstar :D
The important thing isn't whether you use metric or non-metric units, the important thing is consistency.
In Britain we use both the imperial and metric systems. I personally prefer the imperial - and I'm under 20, so it's not just an age thing!
So no different than America buying gallons of milk and liters of soda. lmao
Exactly. The best of both worlds!
Having a 20 foot long car sounds more impressive than 6 meters, and 7 miles per gallon makes more sense than the equivalent liters / 100 kilometers
1 French inch = 1.066 english feet coincidence i think not!!!
love this channel good luck on making more videos because i love your videos
I like having
12 months in 1 year
12 inches in 1 foot
12×5 seconds in 1 minute
12×5 minutes in 1 hour
12×2 hours in 1 day
Do you by any chance have 12 fingers? 😂
@@uweinhamburg I don't XD there are 12 zodiac signs though, in Asia and in the West respectively.
@@@MrGREY-bs9lu Why base a time system on things that superstitious goat-herders saw in the sky? Most of them were stoned half the time anyway.. :joy:
We know that zodiac signs have no meaning at all
@@uweinhamburg But, the trick is we aren't basing a time system on those nonsensical superstitions in particular. Instead, time is based on what naturally occurs and repeats every time the earth comes full circle of the sun. Metric time would work, but many new clocks would have to be made. I can't imagine big ben chiming at ten.
@@MrGREY-bs9lu Time measurement today is based on a second defined as
"the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 s−1 or Hz"
But that doesn't change your general idea. time measurement is based on a natural phenomenon. Decimalization has little to do with it as this definition could be adapted to any purpose.
The international system of units just works..
I had no idea that existed, until now and I can never unknow that. You left an indelible mark on my mind.
actually the metric unit for temperature is kelvin but no one cares
Celsius is just more convenient because of the placement of its zero. Can you tell me what's 291.15 K?
Supershadow301 I know but if you want to make exact measures for any physical phenomenon/concept you need to use the Kelvin and the transformation is kinda simple
Agreed. At least it still has an easy to understand base unlike Fahrenheits...
@@Supershadow301 A thermostat set too cold.
@@allangibson8494 yeah ok alright bud
Say glass is half full in metric. Say the door is a quarter open in metric. I'll wait.
Alamyst2011 I think you confuse some things here 😂 we are Talking bout time and what you said is the same no matter the system lol
@@diveinstructordaniel1095 Lol its the same with saying half or quarter hour. I was just making a observation.
Why is it whenever I hear anything about “revolutionaries” there is a lot of blood involved?
It has something to do with breaking eggs.
I honestly didn't know there was metric time until now so thank you for the upload.
We have metric speech but not metric thought
gequitz Or a metric universe.
We don't do metric music either. That's still base 60 as well
I had a metric clock app on my phone years ago but the app wasn't updated so longer working. I still keep time in a day using Star Trek's Star Dates .0 - .9 system. The annoying thing is I have to mentally convert imperial time into Star Dates.
The time America used Metric?
That video will take at least 80 years to complete
For all who haven't seen it. Google "Why the US doesn't use metric(Because of pirates)" or something like that. It's a really interresting story actually.
Voil Would that also be in metric time?
Not happenin'. Too entitled to change.
Why would we change? it's hardly a inconvenience.
I remember there was an AP Euro DBQ on this, and it was really interesting. One of the other things that caused it to fail was that workers still got the same length of a weekend, even though the week was three days longer, meaning a lot less rest. Also, all of the churches were converted into "temples of reason," filled with propaganda for the regime and the calendar. There were a few other things, but overall it was just kooky
hon hon hon baguette
**surrendering intesifies*
@@lordpinochetuttp3819 **France won more battle than any country in the world intensifies**
@@Unpseudopascommelesautres *won more battles than it lost. Also, which battles it won is much more important than their number
I believe the decimal word for destroying something that you were looking for is decimate.
I would be fine with this change
It's like changing language in a culture, even if it's not easy for people already there since a moment, it wouldn't be a problem for younger people
"The religious population of France would ha e to deal woth TWO different calendars, TWO different ways of keeping time-"
Jews and Muslims: *signature look of superiority*
3:42 DID SOMEBODY SAY COMMUNE OF FRANCE
is just commune of paris the other french just don't care about this rebelion
Clément Lefèvre It is a Révolution, and everyone do not share your point of view about it. The Commune was the first attemp of a socialist revolution, so it’s kind of important.
I'll get the helicopter
+Philibert Le Hardi this was most a separast movment than a revolution with national view
+Clément Lefèvre separatist movement sorry
This should be done worldwide (not to mess with financial markets), but beginning of the year should be what is not Jan 1. to make it less confusing
I have one question...
...𝙬𝙝𝙮?!
Why not? We should use metric time.
watirMapping because religion bad!
Wasserrübenvergilbungsvirus tell that to the sun
Dunno why this was recommended to me, but I am not complaining whatsoever.
Sextidi is 6th day in Latin. Sounds like a weird kink tho.
Edit: Changed French to Latin, also what are those priests doing XD
Henrey Eraser actually this is in Latin, not French.
@@fcalvaresi Still kinky tho
Hey, I really like this format of the video! Hope you do more! And you're voice over style is super!