in defense of 2.5 (Pro, at least), it was able to generate for me a metric UNIX clock as a webpage which I was amused by. it uses kiloseconds/megaseconds/etc. there are 86.4ks/day. The "seconds" hand goes around 1000 seconds, which ticks over the "hour" hand. Instead of saying 4am, you'd say it's 14.
as a calendar or "date" system, we start at UNIX time's creation, so it's currently 1.76 gigaseconds AUNIX. You might use megaseconds as the "week" and gigaseconds more like an era, e.g. Queen Elizabeth III's reign, persisting through the entire fourth gigasecond and into the fifth. The clock also displays teraseconds, though this is just a little purple speck atm. of course, this can work off-Earth where you would simply use 88.775ks as the "day"; the "dates" a Martian and Earthling share with each other would be interchangeable.
I can't seem to get anyone interested in this very serious venture, though... I guess I'll have to wait until the 50th or so iteration of Figure, whenever it becomes useful, to be able to build a 20-foot-tall physical metric UNIX clock in my front yard.
as a calendar or "date" system, we start at UNIX time's creation, so it's currently 1.76 gigaseconds AUNIX. You might use megaseconds as the "week" and gigaseconds more like an era, e.g. Queen Elizabeth III's reign, persisting through the entire fourth gigasecond and into the fifth. The clock also displays teraseconds, though this is just a little purple speck atm. of course, this can work off-Earth where you would simply use 88.775ks as the "day"; the "dates" a Martian and Earthling share with each other would be interchangeable.
I can't seem to get anyone interested in this very serious venture, though... I guess I'll have to wait until the 50th or so iteration of Figure, whenever it becomes useful, to be able to build a 20-foot-tall physical metric UNIX clock in my front yard.