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International System of Units

But it's not likely most will be in everyday use. I mean, do you frequently refer to your travel time in seconds? No, you don't. And I doubt I'll hear someone say it's going to be about 280 Kelvin today.

Granted derived factors are used like hours, but does the hour really make sense? 60 seconds to the minute, 60 minutes to the hour but then seconds can be measured in hundredths... This sounds like it has its roots in the inability of early timepieces to tell time in less than 1/60th or something. Cogs and gearing perhaps. Well whatever, I never really thought about that anyway. Argh it'll be on my mind all day now >.<

You're mostly talking metric system vs imperial system. The metric system is 10 base, the imperial well I didn't grow up with that so it's wtf to me.

*wonders how this relates to the jobs jobs jobs topic and runs off to work when he's already pretty late*
Not that it matters much, as long as it's done on time.