Great, so our time measurement system is an ART FORM rather than the best tool for the job? Intuitive? I really don't see that, to me it's the current time system that seems "unintuitive."
And of course you're going to end up going back to the normal system eventually... because it's impractical to continually convert it from what other people are using. As long as other people use it, there's no point in trying to use a different system yourself. Things just don't work that way.
Sigh. The fact that "there's A reason" (regardless of whether it's still a very good reason) appears to be enough justification for most people to keep doing things they way they've been doing them rather than try to improve. For instance... I can't imagine a society that used digital/metric time would ever decide to switch to what we use now. But people sure do want to cling to it regardless. And you know why? They have no vision.
Interestingly, I recently found that the time system I'm thinking of isn't actually new. Apparently during the French revolution, almost exactly the same time system as the one I'm thinking of was implemented, though it never caught on.
The only justification I can usually get is "well, it may work better, but people don't like it." Why do people have to like such... ANNOYING things, anyway?
. I meant ergonomically. Other ideas for time are great in a scientific sense, but people have to use time to organise their day and plan stuff. The current time system is insanely good and intuitive in this sense. Like the meaningful things we have to set time by on Earth are: day/night, the moon, the seasons, a year. If you look at the numbers involved, the fact we got a system with so much order in it, which doesn't have time of day wandering insanely, or years changing too much, and fits in with the second measurement, moon cycles, etc. The thing is brilliant. Like I'd never discredit it with saying it doesn't work. The reason it has survived so long is because it does. And it is near the most optimal form possible. I also think 7 isn't a bad number for the week. It's a nice length and fits into months well.
I totally agree with you. Every weekend I shake my fist at the sky, angry that I'm forced to show reverence to an imaginary god.Hmm... yes, that is true, isn't it? All interesting. I just wish we didn't have to cater to the whims of religious people in the way we measure time.
At the very least, the days of the week should be renamed to something that intuitively indicates the order between them outside of route memorization.
In Portuguese, apparently they decided to avoid the pagan weekday names. So Sunday is some variation of "Dominis" (Lord's Day) and Saturday is "sabado" (Sabbath), just like all the other Romance languages, and the other days are simply the numbers (2-6) plus their word for "day".
Why not? Just like the other measurements have been metricized?
That would be much easier to keep track of, with the numbers like that. Two days with special names would make sense, and even those are straightforward in meaning.
