Jack wrote: <<<<Would it also help if we did the same for time and went to a decimal clock with 10 hours per day and 100 minutes per hour...>>>>
The French tried it during the French Revolution when it was mandated by a decree on 5 Oct 1793. It was brought into use in 1794 and abandoned in 1795.... The Chinese used a decimal time system alongside a duodecimal one for two or three thousand years. Their day was divided into 100 parts and also, optionally, into 12 double hours. The 100 parts were subdivided into 60 smaller parts. Their months were split into three periods of 10 days which they called xun and this is a term still used in some official documents. The 100 part day was dropped in the 17th century under the influence of Europeans and was changed instead to 96 parts. More recently, in 1998, Swatch tried to introduce a decimal time system which they called 'Swatch Internet Time' and which had 1000 'beats' per day. Like every other system, it didn't catch on..... Best wishes Ian ----------------------------- Ian W Wright Sheffield UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
