[IRCA] Metric Time

["David Hochfelder" <xxmugginsxx@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- bill kral <jwkral@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The French lobbied for metric time around the turn of the century at an
international conference to set up time zones.  10 hours a day, 100 minutes
to an hour. They wanted it as a tradeoff for London and not Paris being the
meridian.  Those wacky French.

Dave

> I guess a metric Clock would still have a round face
> but it would be divided into 10s and 100s,i e 10 hrs a
> day ,100 mins an hr,100 secs a minute etc.but then I
> think it would not match with the length of a day and
> a 100 day year would be a bit short.10 days a week and
> 10 weeks a month? maybe. Bill in Victoria,
>
>

I've never heard of a metric day or month or year. I've always found
that to be one of the biggest ironies of the whole "Let's go metric"
movement, although AFAIK those countries using the metric system still
use some other measure for measure of time...

Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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