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[reldnahkram]

deathbysnusnu and I have developed a new time keeping scheme. Minutes stay the same length. However, everything else is converted to hexadecimal. There are 16 hours in a day, 90 minutes to an hour.

Right now, it's F59. 15 hours, 89 minutes.

That's right kids, if you were to build a hex-clock, it would confuse the hell out of people. 459, for example, is actually 7:29 AM. 945 is 2:39 PM.

Can you dig it?

Comments

[nautiluspq.livejournal.com]

No, no, no. We need more hours in a day.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Nonsense. An assignment that should take three hours now only takes two hours using hex time. Hence you don't need more hours in a day.

[nautiluspq.livejournal.com]

So this means that the time I spend commenting on your LJ instead of writing my essay is insignificant? I think I could get on board with this.

Incidentally, my friends page ate your post when I tried to reply again.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

The time you spend commenting on my LJ takes up a smaller percentage of each hour, yes.

This post was pulling a magical disappearing act for a while, but it appears to be back now.

[blaketh.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. We can modify ordinary clocks most easily and even add the day of the month! It is beautiful.

Hell yeah.

[deathbysnusnu.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, elegant, functional.

And, best of all, there are still 60 minutes in an hour. It's just 0x60 now.


It might be a bit bad for analog watches, however. But we can solve that by making a watch that has a separate hour ring inside the minute ring, which, given that most already have the hour hand being about half the length of the minute hand, is a rather trivial change in terms of thought processes.