Metric Time Math

    To start with the math, we need to observe several design challenges that metric time had to overcome. The first of those being that we needed to preserve the length of a day. That is why there is a unit that equals exactly 1 day in the metric system. The kilochron (Kc) is that unit. This is important since a day isn’t an abstract idea, and therefore it needs to be respected. Every unit is really just several 10x of 1/10th of the Kc. Such as the chron (C), which is 1/1000th of a Kc. The chron is the base unit of the metric time system. This is because it is 1.44 minutes long. 1.44 minutes is a big enough unit that it isn’t obsolete, but it isn’t too big that everyone measures in a smaller unit. Below is the conversion table. The best way to convert an old time into metric time is to convert the time all into a smaller unit. After that, you just do the conversion to get the metric time.

    For example, to convert 9:45 into chron we would do 9*60^2 to get 32400sec and 45*60 to get 2700. Then we add those together which results in 35100. To finish the conversion to chron, we do 35100/86.4 = 406.25c. The current metric time would be 406c.