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Personally, I prefer 100 metric hours in a day. Each centiday is about 15 minutes.

Each milliday is about 90 seconds.

And a microday is slightly shorter than a second.

But, sadly, this revolution won't occur until after I'm elected God-Emperor of Mars, so it is all rather academic.



> this revolution won't occur until after I'm elected God-Emperor of Mars,

And you'll have to make all your intervals slightly longer, due to Mars' solar day being 24h39m35s by standard Earth time.


So a microday is 1/100 of a milliday? That clashes with the SI prefixes, where micro is 1/1000 of milli.

When following SI, a microday would be 0.0864 (or approximately 0.1 second) which doesn't seem to be a very practical unit.


Centidays seem like a very convenient unit to plan your day with. Meetings are already at the 15min boundaries.

You have my vote!


The Adeptus Mechanicus might have something to say about that...




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