is anyone else dreading summer?

[goatschool]

not a pitcher of summer, i mean, summer summer.

 

[FrostGiant]

I enjoy outdoor drinking.

 

[mindspell]

Not so much. I enjoy outdoor activities. I dread heat though. Anything above 25 Celcius and I feel like I am melting...

 

[avi]

I have nothing but HATE for summer.

 

[goatschool]

that's my boy, right there.

 

[NAD]

I'm a desert rat. The heat, she loves me.

 

[FrostGiant]

Summer is the best 3 weeks of the year.

 

[avi]

summer is PAIN.

 

[mindspell]

Oh and for those metric-system-challenged: 25C == 77F

FG is generous, mostly 2 weeks around.

Main positive of summer: motorcycle comes out, this weekend in fact...

 

[avi]

I think I'm a metric convert now.

 

[mindspell]

In a lot of ways it makes a lot more sense than the imperial...

 

[FrostGiant]

We design in metric where I work (25.4 mm to an inch). Except temperature is still in F.

And why isn't there a metric time? Military time is close but I think there should be like a 100:20 am.

 

[0sm0se]

I like any excuse to hide my frail, flammable fair skin indoors, though summer means money.

 

[The Dope]

I enjoy heat and humidity.

 

[0sm0se]

Because our time is relative to the rotation of the earth and you can't metricize a natural phenomenon which takes 365.25 rotations per revolution. I'd like to see someone divide the rotations of the earth into powers of 10.

 

[FrostGiant]

365.25 also doesn't divide well by 60. I want metric time.

 

[FrostGiant]

Oh yeah, and time is relative so we can make it whatever the hell we want.

 

[0sm0se]

That's what I'm trying to say but how practical would that be on this planet if we divided the rotations of the planet into powers of ten when 365.25 doesn't divide evenly by powers of 10.

 

[FrostGiant]

There's 86400 seconds in a day. Well, if we have 100,000 metric day units those would just be equal to .864 seconds. So midnight would be 0 day units. And 40,000 metric day units would be 34560 seconds, or 9:36 am. And so on and so forth.

 

[FrostGiant]

Alright. How's this. 1 day unit = .01 rotations. This gives 36525 day units in a year. Then you could have milliday units and centiday units, etc. And we no longer have days and months. Just Day units. So 12:00 am January 2 would be 100 day units (assuming 1 day = 1 rotation). This way you would no longer need a calendar, just a clock. The time of day would also relfect the time of year.