I grew up in the US and then moved to the UK as an adult. Living in the US, I never really found anything strange about using pounds, ounces, inches, feet, yards, etc. It's what I was taught as a child and it worked well enough for most things. After moving here, though, I had to make a partial* switch to the Metric system. The Metric system is so much more sensible and practical to work with and I wish the UK would make a complete switch a-la mainland Europe. But despite the ease of measuring distance, weight, volume, etc in Metric, very few people seem bothered by the weird way we measure time. Divisions of 60, 12, 7, 28-31, 365, etc are pretty confusing. Why not switch to
Metric time? Or, more practically,
Decimal time? The French actually gave Decimal Time a try around the time of the French Revolution but the introduction of the time-less metric system effectively ended that. It's unfortunate because it's a much more reasonable system of measuring time. Maybe it's too late to bring it back, though. Computer/electronic systems are based on the convention idea of what a 'second' is and it would be very difficult to break free of that. One can always dream, though!
* The British system of measurement is actually a messy combination of Imperial and Metric systems with a few . Speed limits are miles per hour, short lengths in milli/centimeters, fruits and vegetables at the grocery store are in kilograms (except sometimes it's not), beer is in pints, body weight in stone (14 lbs = 1 stone), canned drinks in milliliters, etc.