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  • I actually developed a metric time for that reason, alongside with an International Fixed Calendar using the Holocene Era. It works on a libreoffice spreadsheet. The calendar itself isn’t metric, but it’s highly regular, and that makes it nice imo. The spreadsheet auto-updates the time once you edit the spreadsheet (put random character somewhere, remove). But I sadly don’t know how to put that on a working site or whatever, or as software…

    I picked the Holocene Era because it’s globally actually relevant, and it’s not tied to a controversial figure (2026 being tied to Christ).

    Basically, it’s right now, according to my calendar:

    Year: 11’726
    Month: 1
    Week: 2
    Day of year: 12

    Hour: 8
    Minute: 1


    How does the calendar work?

    There are 364 days in a year. There are 13 months of 28 days each, divided in weeks of 7 days. There are two additional days, New Year’s Eve and Leap Day. They don’t belong to any day of the week. (Religious groups that object, can just have an extra day of prayer, or use their own calendar). The extra month can be called Midsummer, or Solsticy. (Or just name the months “first, second month” and days likewise).

    The first day after New Year’s Eve is the first day that days lengthen again in the North. That day will always be a Monday, starting the year proper.

    How does the day work?

    There are 100’000 seconds (instead of 86,400).
    There are 10’000 tenths.
    There are 1’000 minutes.
    There are 100 quarters.
    There are 10 hours.
    And that is 1 day.

    Left is new unit, right their old equivalent:
    second: 0.864 old second
    tenth: 8.64 old seconds
    minute: 1.44 old minute (1 min, 26.4 sec)
    quarter: 14.4 old minutes (14 min, 24 sec)
    hour: 2.4 old hours (2 hr, 24 min)

    It works out relatively niftily, to be honest.










  • This classification could use an improvement, not all of these are Eastern or Northern Europe. The UK’s economy for example employs a soft Anglo-Saxon model, whereas Estonia and most of the Nordics use a Nordic model (the best imo). And then there are the cultural associations - many people from Poland and co would argue they are central, not eastern European - because in their view, they associate eastern with Russia.

    That said, a more sensible division imho would be:

    Northern

    • Norway
    • Sweden
    • Denmark
    • Finland
    • Iceland
    • Faroe Islands

    Western

    • Netherlands
    • Belgium
    • Luxembourg
    • France
    • United Kingdom
    • Ireland
    • Monaco

    Central

    • Germany
    • Austria
    • Czechia
    • Poland
    • Hungary
    • Switzerland

    Northeastern

    • Lithuania
    • Latvia
    • Estonia

    Southwest

    • Portugal
    • Spain
    • Italy
    • Vatican
    • San Marino

    Southeast

    • Slovenia
    • Croatia
    • Bosnia
    • Serbia
    • Montenegro
    • Kosovo
    • Greece
    • Bulgaria
    • Romania

    Eastern

    • Ukraine
    • Belarus
    • Moldova
    • Russia