Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?

Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.

I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.

I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.

  • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    15 hours ago

    You’re old now and you can’t say mississippi quite as effectively anymore

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksOP
      32·
      15 hours ago

      That’s honestly my dominant theory. And everyone else who is also noticing this is a Genxer.