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2 minutes ago, lacanteen said:

The fact that different countries don’t use different units of time is extremely convenient.

It used to be that every town ran at a different time. What caused all the times to converge were a result of the trains. In order to make sure they were running on time, and everyone could make the train towns had to make sure their times were synced. 

Clocks were designed by people who had a base 60 counting system. This kind of makes sense since it is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12. 12 was a common division, which is why we have a 12 hour day, and a 12 hour night. (Originally the hour was only a 12th of the day or night no matter how long it was.) This is also why the hour is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute is divided into 60 seconds.

[End nerd mode]

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