> 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.
Ma Be wrote: > 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... Sorry, you're completely wrong. Both the revolutionary clock and calendar were used for that 16 months, and the calendar persisted until Waterloo. It is best remembered for the "Law of 22 Prairial", the law (named for the date enacted) which said you could be convicted of treason based on only the statement of one anonymous witness, and you couldn't even speak up on your own behalf! (I'll resist the temptation to start drawing parallels with certain more recent legislation.) During the same period the National Assembly required all priests (from before the Revolution) to sign statements renouncing all belief in God and accepting their Goddess of Reason instead. So the notion that they would balk at ticking off every religion on the planet just doesn't fly.
