ABCs This Day Tonight in Adelaide proudly broke the news on 1 April 1975 that metric time was being introduced to Australia. The new metric time system would see seconds become millidays, minutes become centidays, and hours become decidays.
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centiday — cen·ti·day … English syllables
centiday — ˌdā noun ( s) Etymology: centi + day : a period of 14 minutes 24 seconds used especially in the study of plant growth … Useful english dictionary
Metric time — is the measure of time interval using the metric system, which defines the second as the base unit of time, and multiple and submultiple units formed with metric prefixes, such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. It does not define the time of day,… … Wikipedia
Day — For other uses, see Day (disambiguation). Water, Rabbit, and Deer: three of the 20 day symbols in the Aztec calendar, from the Aztec calendar stone. A day is a unit of time, commonly defined as an interval equal to 24 hours … Wikipedia
Ke (unit) — NOTOC The ke (刻; pinyin: kè ) is a traditional Chinese unit of decimal time lasting approximately a quarter of a western hour. Traditionally the ke divides a day into 100 equal intervals [According to the Shuowen Jiezi from Xu Shen ,… … Wikipedia
