Why did the rest of the world change from: (Distance)
Yards and Miles to Meters and Kilometers?
Why did they change from: (Weight)
Pounds and Ounces to Grams and Kilograms?
Why did they change from: (Volume)
Pints and Gallons to Liters?

It is simple. We use the meter as a basis. We find an interval through which light will travel in a vacuum over a certain distance measured in meters. This will make time universal to the meter, unlike our current system which is based on the Earth's rotation. As such, time is divided into weird increments of 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours, and 365.25 days.

Metric Time would NOT be useful to people who are talking face to face or for anything based solely on the earth’s rotation, such as birthdays or getting up in the morning to go to the gym. What good is it then?

In the movie Phenomenon, the character played by John Travolta was being tested for "super-intelligence" and was asked how old he would be in days if he were born on a certain past date. The super-intelligent character immediately asked, what country was he born in, what time zone, and what time of day it was so he could be precise. Using standard time, he could not answer the question without that information. With Metric Time, he could tell exactly how long ago he would have been born without any of that information. But he would have answered in Trams and not in days.

Just as 24-hour military time is specific to a certain function, so would Metric Time be specific. It would be useful for those in different time zones. Computers for time calculation such as Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) would use it. It would be very useful for space development or for strict business transactions.

Metric Time could be used to synchronize every computer around the globe to the same time. There would be no need to adjust clocks for daylight savings time in the United States when many countries do not have it. Some countries even have half-hour time zones that make global markets and trade more difficult. Metric Time would also eliminate the Year 2000 problem now facing the world’s computer programs.

Historians could use it for exact dates that would be the same for everyone. For example what if someone asked the Trivial Pursuit question, "When exactly did Neil Armstrong first step on the moon? Using Metric Time, that moment would be exactly the same for everybody. However it was a different time and/or day for someone in Paris, France than someone in Miami, Florida or Tokyo, Japan.

Astronomical and physics calculations would have direct correlations between distance and time. They would be easier to convert and calculate using Metric Time.

The Metric Time clock would be started using the present date, which begins at the assumed year of birth of Christ and gets larger every day. A negative value would be used for any B.C. dates like those referring to dinosaurs or ancient Egypt.

Where Standard Planetary Time changes with every 15 degrees of longitude on the globe, Metric Time would be the same everywhere, since it is not based on the planet’s rotation.

When or if humans ever develop outer space, Metric Time would almost be required. If there were a Japanese colony on the moon and a multi-national space station near Mars, and a U.S. manned mission on it’s way to Venus, everybody would be on different time unless a standard existed. GMT still is basedon Earth's rotation. Metric Time would allow all parties to know when something happened and reference it to their local standard. One day on the moon is equal to 28 days on Earth.

When you are asked for the time, you DO NOT usually say the day, month, year, decade, century and millennia. You also DO NOT tell the seconds, micro seconds or pico seconds. You simply say a part of the date like 12:47 P.M. Usually you don’t even say PM or AM which assumes the person knows day or night. A true exact time would include all those things and be written with slash marks, spaces, colons, decimals, letters and identify the time zone being referred to.

01/09/1998 12:47:00.00 PM AD GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

Metric Time would have parts separated by commas, colons, and decimals.

0,631:702:457:69.00

The decimal places represent fractions of a Tram. You would choose the significant places to use.

0,631:702:457:69.00

The first 2 places in front of the decimal are for Trams and 10 trams, the basic equivalent of seconds in Standard Planetary Time.

0,631:702:457:69.00

The next 3 places are for 100 trams, 1K trams (Kt - Kilotrams), and 10Kt, the equivalent of hours and minutes in Standard Planetary Time.

0,631:702:457:69.00

The next 3 places are for 100Kt, 1,000Kt (Mt - Megatrams), and 10Mt, the equivalent of days and months in Standard Planetary Time.

0,631:702:457:69.00

Everything after that is for 100Mt 1,000Mt (Gt - Gigatrams), and 10Gt, the equivalent of years and millennia in Standard Planetary Time.

0,631:702:457:69.00

To refer to past events labeled with B.C. the time would be the same but have a negative value such as –0,631:702:457:69.00

That’s it. Pretty simple, from right to left.

For this question you would say something like 2457. You wouldn’t say the smallest increments and wouldn’t mention the large increments. This could easily be calculated to let people anywhere know the local time, if they really needed to know.

If you were talking to someone in Tokyo and they said they would fax you a contract at 2:15 Monday, you would have to ask what time zone are they in (how many hours difference), does the international date line make a difference (different day), A.M. or P.M. (what part of the day).

Using Metric Time, they could say 1649 and there would be no question when it would come through. You could easily have a clock that would calculate and translate Metric Time for you if you really needed to know. You would no longer need a wall with five or six clocks showing the time and day of every major capitol.

There are many uses for Metric Time. It is only a tool. It could be used to build new systems or improve old ones. Can you think of any other uses????