“We expect the shipment in a megasecond or so.”
” ‘scuse me—that’s about a week, no?”
“Eleven point something days, actually. Why you gotta use Earth-standard days, though? Pretty dated if you ask me.”
“Your metric time confuses the shit out of me. It’s arbitrary.”
“And how? Last I checked, you measure time based off of the rotation of a freaking rock—a rotation which, by the way, changes, so instead of owning up to the fact that your time standard is broken, you change your notion of time itself to compensate? Here in space, we care nothing for Earth or its leap-seconds.”