Best Unit Of Time

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Option	Votes
Day	6
Century	5
Week	4
Year	4
Second	3
Decade	3
Hour	2
Month	2
Minute	0

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago)

What about the Planck unit of time???

Where's my 10^-43 seconds???

― Viceroy, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

wot no fortnight

― electricsound, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:06 (seventeen years ago)

Weeks are so comfortoable.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:08 (seventeen years ago)

Years and days are the only salient measures, they're not based on an arbitrary assignment of numbers to fit into a time period, rather they're based on actual rotations of the earth, so you get some consistency. Days change too much, while years on the other hand give you enough time for reflection but still foster a strong feeling of nostalgia or what have you comparative to other relative years, due to seasonal changes, and things like school years (for students), and ummm, year end lists.
On a purely social level, I think Months should get much more credit than they do.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:27 (seventeen years ago)

Agree with most everything mehlt said, except that months aren't strictly arbitrary either

― dell, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

LIGHTYEARS

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

Weeks are totally baffling, they make no sense at all. So, that's my vote.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

LIGHTYEARS

that's distance, fool

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:41 (seventeen years ago)

Astronomical units then? Or kilometers?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:43 (seventeen years ago)

PARSECS!!

If that isn't a unit of time then how could Han Solo have made the Kessel Run in less than twelve of them, huh??

― Viceroy, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago)

:( fuckabuzz.

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago)

I voted for seconds, because there are more of them.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago)

You know what:

I saw a performance of a song from "Rent" on the Rosie O'Donnel show years ago. The song sucked, but it taught me something useful for the occasional conversion: 525,600 minutes; how do you measure a yeeeaaarrrr?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago)

I said this exact thing in 8th grade. (our music teacher made our class perform that song in front of the entire school)

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

things my job does to you, part 86400:

the number of seconds in a day.

Part 168 is the number of hours in a week.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

also, can't wait for 2038.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago)

Convert:
seconds--->years
fortnights--->centuries
jews---->xtians

― Abbott, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=seconds+in+a+score&btnG=Search

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

YEAHHH. Fortnights>>>>Weeks

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

oops

Fortnights>>weeks

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

hom many seconds in a mole?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

they're just one serving.

― Kerm, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 06:58 (seventeen years ago)

Days because they are the most diurnal

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 07:16 (seventeen years ago)

Kalpas? Yugas?

― dell, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

― S-, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 07:41 (seventeen years ago)

i will not vote in a poll that does not contain 'lustrum' as a unit of time. kevin kelly would agree with me.

― remy bean, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago)

vote!!

― Surmounter, Saturday, 15 December 2007 06:09 (seventeen years ago)

I CANNOT VOTE FOR "SEASON"
OR ANY TYPE OF LUNAR PERIOD???

― ian, Saturday, 15 December 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

where is the option for "many moon."

― ian, Saturday, 15 December 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

Non-nerdy dork exploring nerdy domain = total lose.

― libcrypt, Saturday, 15 December 2007 06:39 (seventeen years ago)

1 millenium = 26 088.7285 fortnights

― The Reverend, Saturday, 15 December 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago)

Epoch

― milo z, Saturday, 15 December 2007 06:53 (seventeen years ago)

Lunar monthe - yes

― Crêpe, Saturday, 15 December 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

No epoch, no cred.

― M.V., Saturday, 15 December 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

the eternal moment:

At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively dissonance of its colors. But that was no longer the point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation-the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence...

"There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time....I could, of course, have looked at my watch; but my watch, I knew, was in another universe.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

― Surmounter, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

best unit of all time.

― pc user, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

* Jiffy

― Casuistry, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

I vote for the quadraplex.

― Aimless, Sunday, 16 December 2007 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Monday, 17 December 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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