Yep, and when that didn’t work out due to the Earth not being a perfect sphere they changed it to light speed, and they have changed even that number more than once. For Earthly measures I prefer Nautical Miles. They work just fine both as a pilot and a scientist. Next thing you know the UN folks will want us to change to a ten hour day with 100 decihours, with 1000 millihours.
“Next thing you know the UN folks will want us to change to a ten hour day with 100 decihours, with 1000 millihours.”
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decabet