Is it worth interrupting the system?

While we’re on the topic of time, let’s talk more about how the way we measure time makes absolutely no sense. 

Who the hell decided we would divide up our hours into 60 minutes, or minutes into 60 seconds? Or, for that matter, our day into 24 hours? The numbers seem kind of arbitrary. 

As I mentioned in my last post, most humans around the world are brought up to understand mathematics under the decimal, or base-ten, system. It would only make sense, then, if we divided up our days into multiples of ten. 

When you do the math, one hour is 360 seconds, and one day is 1,440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds, which are seemingly completely arbitrary numbers. Why don’t we divide up our days into 100,000 seconds or 1,000 minutes or 10 hours? Would that be so bad? It would be possible. The minute and second hands on our clocks would just move at a slightly different pace than they do now. It’s not as revolutionary an idea as it may seem. 

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