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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (12175)7/10/1998 4:15:00 PM
From: John Cuthbertson  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
OT: "No metric time yet....10 hours per day, 10 minutes per hour, 10 seconds per minute, 10 be- quicks per second and 10 blinks per be-quick."

Maurice,
Actually, the same French Revolutionaries who gave you the metric system did invent (and impose the use of) a metric calendar. 10 months per year and 10 days per week. It didn't work well, though, and after the Reign of Terror it was discarded while metric weights and measures were retained. It turns out that the seven day week really is fundamentally ingrained in our nature.

==John C.
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