WestJet converts to metric time

YouTube ^ | April 1, 2014

[Squawk 8888]

Effective today, WestJet is changing the way we display our flight schedules, switching from our current system of "a.m." and "p.m." to metric time. For more information visit http://fly.ws/Metric-time.

[mazda77]

That will work perfectly with my metric adjustable wrench.

[John Galt's cousin]

Will 7:45 pm become 19.75?

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Damn.

I’m getting hungry and lunch is still 3 kilohours away.

[maine yankee]

How will this work with daylight savings time ? I believe the sun is still analog.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

“Metric Time”?

I just call it military time. It’s pretty common here in Europe. It took me a little while to get used to it, but it’s easy enough.

[knarf]

Yeah, your flight from 1975 has FINALLY arrived.

Unfortunately, your elderly parents died in seats 3A&B in 1993 and you owe the airlines $19.75 a day for storage

Mummification is free.

[bert]

From the web site......

How to calculate your flight’s departure in metric time:

Take your departure time in 24-hour time. Represented as HR:MIN.
Multiply the HR by 60.
Add the MIN.
Take the total and divide by 1.44.
(HR x 60) + MIN = X / 1.44 = New metric flight time (in milliminutes)

Sample calculation:

5:42 pm = 17:42

(17 x 60) + 42 = 1062 / 1.44 = 737 milliminutes

[AnAmericanAbroad]

OK. I forgot...April Fool’s Day.

Good one.

[Clay Moore]

The Simpson’s already did it.

[taterjay]

The math problem makes me wonder if they will change the name of the company to Common Core Airlines.

[john316]

They must be proponents of the common corps

[Mycroft Holmes]

They got it slightly wrong. Is really 737 milli Day, not milli Minutes. Other than that it's perfectly sensible.

Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation

[jdege]

The proper measure of absurd time is the millifortnight.

[Hatteras]

It would make me want to bash in my alarm clock with my metric sledge hammer...

[GreyFriar]

Will 7:45 pm become 19.75?

No, it will be 1945 hours. This is the 24 hour clock the military has been using for decades.

[reg45]

The original design from the time of the French Revolution was to have a decimalized time system. A day would be divided into 10 hours, an hour would be divided into 100 minutes, and a minute would be divided into 100 seconds. Therefore, all time based calculations would be decimal based without the need to go from seconds to hours.

[SampleMan]

I smell “April 1st”

[Abathar]

So your broken clock is only right once every 39.37 days now?

[bigtoona]

April first is so annoying