Metric Seconds

Sixty seconds per minute, sixty minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
When youre trying to do math with time, its hard.
Metric Seconds is easy.
Use this app to convert time to and from metric, and to tell and measure time in metric.

`Metric seconds is time measured in seconds using the standard metric units that are easy.
The zero point is midnight January 1, 1970, the start of time for UNIX and other computer systems.
And there are no time zones in metric time, its all UTC-based.` +

In metric time, seconds are the base unit.
Then the regular metric multipliers are used: kilo, Mega, Giga, etc.
We can use hecto for 100 seconds to have something close to a minute.
Kiloseconds, 1000 seconds, are about 16 minutes long so 3.6 ksec is an hour and 86.4 ksec is a day.

Science fiction has used metric time.
Some examples are Vernor Vinges books A Fire on the Deep and Deepness in the Sky and Charles Strosss books Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Neptunes Brood.
Also Robert Forward and Iain M.
Banks used metric time.

We wont abandon minutes and hours anytime soon.
Were all used to them.
We wont start saying things like Ill be right with you, give me a hectosec.
For doing math with time or doing scientific and engineering measurements, kiloseconds, Megaseconds, and Gigaseconds might just make a lot of sense.
And trying something new is fun.,

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