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08-20-2007, 02:20 PM
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Re: Metric time
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So a new tomtimeŠ second will have to equal 31,577,600/10,000,000 = 3.15576 boring old non metric seconds. [/ QUOTE ] Fudge the numbers a bit, turn that 3.15576 into the first 10 digits of pi and then you have an elegant marketing technique about how this is a true and universal ratio. 
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#12
08-20-2007, 05:35 PM
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Re: Metric time
A time reform was part of the metric system as introduced in 1793 during the French Revolution. The day was subdivided into 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds (making a decimal second 0.864 traditional seconds and a decimal minute 1.44 traditional minutes.) Weeks of ten days, months of thirty days (all with new names). Either five or six extra days not belonging to any month inserted at the end of the year.
Decimal time was abandoned in 1795. The calendar tottered on through 1805. More than anything else, the new calendar was an attempt to destroy the power of the Church - so, not surprising that it vanished very quickly after the revolution ended and the Church was able to reestablish itself.
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