Time

[Cyhort]

Time the way it is now makes sense to me. I'm against all kinds of pointless changes that force people to learn an entirely new way of doing something when it's not necessary. Which is why I will never support America going metric. That is very interesting though.

[armbarchris]

Time is just another thing that needs to be measured. Whether you use the American system, metric, the SI system, the anchient Chinese system or something you made up yourself, the object being measured is still the same, just expressed differently. 60 inches is the same as 152.40 centimeters, regardless of how its expressed. Time is no exception.
Yes, its true that many anchient cultures had more advanced ways of tracking time (and other stuff) then we do now. Thats becuase we lost a LOT during the Dark Ages, and more when the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs were wiped out and effectively erased by Spanish conqorers.

PS The 2012 thing is a load of bullcrap, the end of the world has been predeicted a thousand times and the've all been wrong. The Mayans probably just stopped counting past 2012; us saying that they predicted that to be the end of the world would be like someone in the future finding one of our calenders that dosen't go past 2050 and saything that the world must end in 2050.