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Not true, space agencies will use it... once.
until they lose a multi billion dollar mission because of conversion errors
It's pretty much a requirement now to use the metric system for everything.
Imagine if Americans use a different unit system for time 😱
Unix is for commies. We'll run our clocks the way Britain ran its coinage! 32 shillings to the third hour, four hours in a pound, 4.3 in a guinea. And of course 10 shekels in a pound, 7 to the guinea. To account for relativity of course.
Show me one flaw. Freedom time bitches!
Ok so now they must split it all into 10 timezones? 😂