On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:39:56 John David Galt wrote: ... >Originally (in revolutionary France), the metric system did include a metric >clock, defined so that > 1 day = 10 metric hours = 1 000 metric minutes = 100 000 metric seconds. > >This was so confusing that it was abandoned after 16 months -- even before >the metric (aka Revolutionary) calendar. > Not exactly, John. The real truth of the matter is that metric time was proposed *alongside calendar reform*. However, because the calendar reform was too radical (it proposed a 10-day week) it got *very fierce* opposition by nearly practically ALL religious groups in the planet. Conclusion, it flopped, it had to...
As for the confusion aspect I'm sorry to disagree, it would be no more confusing than our current mediocre system of 60-60-24! >We've learned this lesson already. Let's not repeat it. > In conclusion, there IS a nice alternative to metricate time I've vehicled here sometime ago, the "percentime" (copyrighted!...) approach. 100 hours in a day comprised of 1000 metric seconds (or a ks - kilosecond, where the second is obviously different from the current one, i.e. 1 (new) s = 0.864 (old) s The world would be divided up in 20 time zones 5 metric hours apart (one other less desirable option would be 25 time zones of 4 hours apart). There would be 50 TV time slots as opposed to the current 48. However, it's still too early to muster any support for this proposal yet. Greetings, Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
