So Americans are kind of ass-backwards in terms of our measurement. We're pretty much the only country still running our own measurement systems -- we don't use metric temperature or distance measurement. And on top of all that, there's no metric measurement for time.

Who was the silly sod who came up with this whole 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour thing? Did someone arbitrarily come along thousands of years ago and say "Hey, let's screw things up for people thousands of years from now and measure our time in base 12!" We could've chosen a different basis for measuring hours, all we have to do is redefine how long a minute or an hour is.

Then again, we've managed to hang onto the antiquated feet/mile system and the Fahrenheit scale. I'm beginning to think that it's a secret conspiracy by the CIA to try to find another way to make the world bend to our will. It's just a waiting game to see who blinks first, us or all of them.