How Time Should be Measured

The way we measure time across the day (what is currently called the ‘24-hour period’) is needlessly complicated.

There are 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour and 24 hours per day. This means there are 86,400 seconds in a day.

I propose a simpler way of measuring time in units of 10 and 100. All it would require is redefining “second” to what would currently equal 0.864 current seconds.

0.864 current seconds = 1 New Second

100 New Seconds = 1 New Minute

100 New Minutes = 1 New Hour

10 New Hours = 1 Day

Instead of measuring 1-12, our clocks would display 10-100.

Of course, due to the inconvenience of a year consisting of approximately 364.25 days, we would only complicate matters but applying a similar system of time measurement to a unit exceeding the day (though having 5-day weeks, with 73 weeks per year, would simplify matters). Months would have to be set arbitrarily because the factors of 365 are only (1, 5, 73 and 365), and the middle two factors are already used by the duration and quantity of the new weeks.