Base12

I tell ya what. What would it be like if our society was base 12 instead of base 10 ie. for the things that it is base 10, if it were base 12???

Would teens go up to 23? Would we make up new names for the words (or, taking a primordialist approach, would we have different names in place) for thirteen, fourteen and so on?

Would we develop two extra fingers to facilitate the new countdown?

What about cellphones and computer keypads. ATMs. Eftpos. Our personal PINs would be made more secure by about [(12x12x11x10) - (10x10x9x8)] more combinations. Yipee. More numbers to choose from (and forget). Bearing in mind the a personal PIN cannot be the same 4 numerals, must have at least 3 different numerals...

Base 12. At least our watches and clocks would fit in finally. Calculators would need redesigning though...

Hang on. Not timepieces. Well, maybe. 5x12 = 60. Any questions?

How about base 8? Once we got used to it, we'd never be undersold by a computer retailer again. 80GB of HDD storage my ass... 1MB = 1024 KB, 1KB = 1024 B, and so on... But at the shop 1GB = 1,000 MB, while 1 MB = 1,000 KB. That means we lose about 6 GB. An 80GB HDD is really 74.

yeah... base8 anyone?