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So long as we're being completely arbitrary without any regard whatsoever natural language sensibility, let's just convert time to a metric/decimal system.

In 1998, the Swiss watch company Swatch introduced the concept of a decimal Internet Time in which the day is divided into 1000 'beats' so that each beat is equal to 1 minute 26.4 seconds. The beats were denoted by the @ symbol, so that, for example, @250 denotes a time period equal to six hours.

So far this system has not caught on

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.ht...




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