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> You'd think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.

> But no, it's apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?

You can, they just messed up the example by unnecessarily rounding off the times. The night from 9:50 till 2:75 metric time only lasts 3.25 metric hours, or 7h48m in standard time; less than the 8 standard hours they started with.



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