How long is a metric day?

Question

Will I need to get a metric watch when I go to Europe?

Answer 1

I am a simple and humble woman.
All I know about metric day is, that it is a math holiday, celebrated every year on the 10th of October.
As long as I have lived, all 10th of October have been as long as the 28th of August or the 14 of November or any other day!!!!
Never mind about metric watch.
A nice funny Swatch watch, will do just fine!

When you come to Europe, meet me in Athens, the 10th of that month, 11am. sharp!!!

Answer 2

A nice website to visit for information on metric time: http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/things/metrictm.htm and provides the following info:

"A metric day is defined as the length of time required for the earth to make one revolution, and it is sub-divided into 25 metric hours. Each metric hour is further divided into 100 metric minutes and each metric minute is divided into 100 metric seconds. The comparison is as follows:

Traditional: 60 × 60 × 24 = 86,400 seconds/day

Metric: 100 × 100 × 25 = 250,000 metric seconds/day

This means that 1 metric second = 0.3456 second, or roughly a metric second is about one-third of a traditional second. (1 second equals 2.8935 metric seconds.)

Likewise,

Traditional: 60 × 24 = 1440 minutes/day

Metric: 100 × 25 = 2500 metric minutes/day

or 1 metric minute = 0.576 minutes = 34.56 seconds. That is, a metric minute is about half as long as a traditional minute. (1 minute equals 1.7361 metric minutes.)

Finally,

Traditional: 24 hours/day

Metric: 25 metric hours/day

stipulates that 1 metric hour = 0.96 hour = 57.6 minutes. For the most part, few will notice over the run of an hour the absence of slightly less than 2½ minutes. In fact, many may actually enjoy the feeling of having one whole "extra" hour at the end of each day!

The metric second will be defined in terms of a physically constant event, such as the cesium atom presently used. In this case one metric second becomes the duration of 3,176,973,539.712 periods of the radiation of the cesium atom. Of course, a more convenient standard may be located.

From the viewpoint of most people, a metric second one third as long as a traditional second will not be a major inconvenience. To those literally using a second, it is typically a long period of time. For everyday uses (e.g., setting the microwave oven) a simple tripling will suffice. For strict record keeping, more accurate measurements will be possible.

All clocks will need to be redesigned. Digital clocks, which are quite common, will require the least redesign and the multiple 100's of subunits will be handy. The hours in a day still requires two digits at most. Analog clocks will have to undergo a significant change, however this will not be impossible to engineer. For the most part, the twelve-hour clock will be supplanted by a twenty-five hour clock, patterned after the twenty-four hour clock now common in various parts of the world. Colloquially, many will still refer to "a.m." and "p.m." and this will in fact not pose a major inconvenience. Noon will occur at 12:00, or a half-hour (50 metric minutes) prior to the midway point through the day. Nonetheless, usages of the word noon do not strictly require the sun to be half-way through its daily traverse, for in fact it already is not so. Given the instances of time zones, daylight savings times, etc., it is a rare occurrence indeed to find the sun directly overhead at "noon." In the evenings, "midnight" will not occur one minute after 11:59 p.m.; instead it will occur one metric minute after 12:99 p.m. A great many people currently retire for the evening by 11:00 p.m. and so will rarely notice the difference; even the terminology "12:15 p.m., (etc.) is in use to refer to minutes after midnight. The difference is that there will exist a "13:15 p.m." ... or more likely, a "00:15" (p.m. not being required to be stated)."

To add to the above info, I don't think you need a metric watch for Europe. Old habits die hard, and time as we know it will remain the same for a long time to come - everybody is used to it this way. I have read somewhere that the French tried to introduce a 10-day week a few years ago, but it obviously wasn't well received because it deprived everybody of one weekend per month.

Answer 3

Yes you will most definitley need to get a metric watch if not you will not know what time it is. You are familiar with Toys 'R Us I would guess well right beside that store is the store you want IDIOTS 'R US. They will have what you need.

Answer 4

A metric day doesn't exist - someone's pranking you

Answer 5

There's no such thing as metric time.

Answer 6

Seems like you stumped a few again, Babe! The one guy's answer appears to be right on target! :)