Gregory's ServerThe real reason that a minute isn't an official SI unit is that it's actually a highly variable length of time. I've been working for 3 days on a job that I was assured would just take a minute
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  @errantscience "I know that's late on a Friday, but that'll only take you a minute..." @errantscience āA Minuteā is a small moment of time, dependent on which side of the bathroom door you happen to be on.  @errantscience Oh, it DID just take a minute. For the person who assigned it to you to pass the buck on to you... My condolences :P @errantscience I started counting if someone approaches me with this just takes a minute. Not answering yes or no or okay do just 1, 2, 3, 4 a lot of people totally forget what they wanted.  @errantscience And every once in a while a minute is 61 seconds (or only 59 seconds) long, but we smear them together so you don't notice it. Unless you do. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html |
@errantscience you forgot "ill need a minute for that"