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Cooking Up a Time Revolution
Let’s all go decimal so things cook quicker
This has been languishing in my drafts folder for a while. I have decided to hit publish today because the White House has just instructed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies. Apparently, time is different on the moon because of gravitation. This new time zone, possibly called Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), aims to be in place by 2026. I await their call.
Sometimes, when I am cooking, I decide that the times they give you are a rough guide that can be adjusted to fit in with how hungry I am.
Or, if I have to cook two things at once, I adjust both cooking times so they are ready at the same time.
My logic goes like this:
Time could be divided differently. It’s just that someone chose to break one rotation of the earth into 24 hours, where one hour is 60 minutes and one minute is 60 seconds.
But why 60? Why not something easier to work with, like 10 or 100
They COULD have decided to break it down into 20 hours, where one hour is 100 minutes, and each minute has 10 seconds in it.
And in my new decimalised view of time:
