On 8 Jan 2009 10:27:57 -0800, [email protected] (Arthur Gutowski)
wrote:

>>The sessions are longer and start at all sorts of weird times, which is a bit 
>>confusing. (It's like living in the US and traveling to a country that uses 
>>the 
>>metric system or vice versa. Takes some getting-used-to.) [...]
>So, 1:25 English is like, what 2:80 Metric Time?  Sorry, couldn't resist the 
>Bob 
>& Doug reference (double it and add thirty).

There was an attempt to implement metric time, but it failed back in
the French revolution.

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