The facts also speak that there were 36 'contestant watches/clocks or time devices' that were accepted to find: *surest, cheapest and cost effective* proposal for DUAL time reading. But NO REPORTS ever were declared public.
These must be in some Paris Library, awaiting to be dug afresh!
Brij
From: John David Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:23727] Re: nautical metrication
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:57:06 -0800
> 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.
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