Thoughts on Time

Time and history are currently conflated, making it unreasonably difficult to algorithmically handle
either.  I greatly enjoy imagining what systems I would force on the world, were I able, and time is
among the first things I'd change.  Days, months, years, and time zones have no meaning for a people
no longer living on one planet, and should be relegated to historical artefacts like old technology.

For the measure of time, I'd expand the current base-sixty system used to group seconds into minutes
and minutes into hours.  Groups of sixty hours would become a new unit equal to five sixths of three
days.  A unit of sixty thereof would be equal to one hundred and fifty days, which makes it a little
under half a year.  Yet another unit thereof would be equal to a little under twenty-five years, and
corresponding roughly to the casual unit known as a generation.  I find these units to be very nice.

As for their names, ``cycle'' would certainly be amongst them, but whether there would be a ``lesser
cycle'' and ``greater cycle'' is uncertain.  Still, ``generation'' for the largest I've described is
also a nice name, and certainly shouldn't be ``greatest cycle'' in case any future units were added.

Learning Latin has made me appreciate the small numbers, and the many units once used so commonly to
avoid big numbers.  In modern English, large numbers with no units are so common it now disgusts me.

I'd also change those symbols used to represent the integers, but I suppose that's for a later time.
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