For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It’s like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet…

Edit: just to clarify, I’m more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

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    Haha yeah in case it wasn’t clear from my other comments, I don’t actually think imperial is a better system. I just don’t think it’s as bad as everyone says it is. Like you said, you understand the size of these units relative to things irl and can just intuit them.

    Converting between units doesn’t come up often because like, when are you gonna need to know distances in coins? I mean it’s cool that you can easily do that in metric but I couldn’t care less that I can’t switch between feet and miles.

    P.S. do beans weigh as much as cabbages in Brazil? :0

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      Hahahhahaj, you were victim of my bad English. I meant a bag of beans! Hahahaha.

      I was just giving an example of how you could have an intuitive idea of metric units by the using objects around you if you eventually need it.

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        Haha no problem, your English is waaay better than my Portuguese! I understood what you meant and that’s the point I was trying to make too. I don’t need to do any conversions to figure out what a mile, gallon, etc. is because I already know, just like you already know what a kilometer and liter are.