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And thus does Tony Bennett demonstrate,
incontrovertibly, that he lives in the past.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Tony
Bennett
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October 12
2004, 10:33 AM |
re (Anonymous): "Today, 2004-10-10, is
Metric Day. It is celebrated on the tenth day of the tenth
month".
REPLY: But this is *OCTO*ber - the *8th* month.
Surely the time for metric celebration of their beloved decimal
system is *DECEM*ber - the 10th month?
But then any day of
the year is a good one to celebatre duodecimal sense because, hey,
we have *12 months* in a year!
Pity Julius spoilt it all by
insisting on his own personal month and requiring that it had 31
days. That brought February down to 29 days.
Then Augustus
came along and said: "I want *MY* month as well, and it's got to
be at least as long as Julius's", so then we had *another* 31-day
month created.
Problem. They had to take another day away
from somewhere else on the calendar. Poor old February suffered
again - now down to 28 days.
Personally, I suggest they
have 'metric day' on the same day as Europe Day - viz., May 9th -
and get the whole thing over with in one period of, er, 24
hours
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