Ah metric, (well not really since it was never actually part of the metric system, and this version is more properly a decimal system), time, the French revolution, tried to institute a 10 hour day with a 100 "metric minutes" per. hour. Didn't take, proving there are things even the French wouldn't stand for.

David Mann wrote:

Yeah the rest of the world works on metric time :)

Cheers,

- Dave

On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Peter J. Alling wrote:

2.54 cm but it'll take a while for you to see this most likely.

Jostein wrote:

Gee, this post used more than 36 hours to come back through the
list...





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