Timeline for Is there any word for 10 days in English?
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 22:55 | comment | added | MikeJRamsey56 | @kasperd I am thinking yes. Probably why that spelling was chosen. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 22:05 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 22:05 | comment | added | Ryan | Sometimes the metric system really isn't better... | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 21:59 | comment | added | kasperd | Is dekade pronounced the same way as decade? | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | MikeJRamsey56 | @w3d The question asked was, "Is there any word for 10 days in English?" I was only trying to supply an answers. I was not weighing in on the question of a metric week making any sense. :-) As James P pointed out, a 10 metric hour day can be handled but a 365.25 day year doesn't lend itself to being easily cast into a metric system. Orbital mechanics can be so messy. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 18:29 | comment | added | MrWhite | @Mari-LouA I think that should be "...144 minutes (our time) to make one single 'metric' hour." We seem to have clearly demonstrated one of the concerns raised in that article: using the same units for two different quantities is confusing! It's 100 metric-seconds make a metric-minute, etc. But a "day" is still the same "day" (length of) regardless of whether it's metric or ABT. Then a "dekade" is a metric-week, which is 10 days. (But why introduce a new unit for a metric-week, but not for metric-seconds, etc.? And where did "dekade" get conjured up from in the first place?) | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | User1000547 | No one would ever have any idea what you're talking about using this term. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | user198750 | @Mari-LouA 10 metric days are exactly the same length as 10 "normal" days. It's still based on the rotation of the earth, anything else would be mad! 1 metric day = 1 normal day, 1 metric hour = 2.4 normal hours. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | According to "metric time", 100 seconds make a minute, 100 minutes make an hour, 10 hours make a day, which means 1,000 minutes (our time) to make one single "metric" hour. Is that correct? Did the OP say he was measuring time according to this system or the ABT (Anglo-Babylonian Time) one? | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:18 | comment | added | user198750 | @Rathony No, each day is still the same length as in a 7 day week, there's just 3 more. Otherwise you'd be getting up for work at a different time each day. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 14:54 | comment | added | user140086 | I am sorry, but I am confused. Please correct me if I am wrong. According to the link, "10 days in a metric week" seems to be equal to 7 days in a non-metric week that we normally use. How can 10 days in a metric week be 10 days in a normal week? How can you use the word in the OP's context? | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 13:49 | history | answered | MikeJRamsey56 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |