Re:Time to Dump Time Zones
by jhbadger on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:55PM
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That first example (12 30 day months with 5 or 6 days outside months) was actually used in practice in post-revolutionary France (and again during the Paris Commune). I'm not sure keeping 7-day weeks is really a plus -- the French Revolutionary calendar used 10-day "decades" which align with the metric system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
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I will just point out for the benefit of those who run Emacs and haven't yet discovered it, that in calendar mode, "p f" will tell you, for example, that November 7, 2016 is 17 Brumaire, year 225 of the revolution.
Metric? Yeah... us Americans would never go for that garbage... :)
But you do.. Sort of. One of the original signatories of the treaty of the metre, and all of your silly units for length and mass at least are defined in terms of SI units as of 1959 [1] [2].
So when you give someone an inch, you're specifically giving 25.4mm ;)
[1] https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/si-units-lengt...
[2] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pml/wmd/m...
Re:Time to Dump Time Zones
by bluejekyll on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:23PM
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I think you mean "we Americans..."
And yeah. I mean 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5 where 12 is much more flexible in giving us 2, 3, 4, and 6. At least that was my grandfather's argument.
I annoying need to keep Metric and Standard wrenches and such for working on various things. Eventually it won't matter as the US will mostly source parts built over-seas where it will only make sense to adopt metric. And then the Standard system will only be left on road signs and temeratures, oh that's pretty much already happened.
> 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5 where 12 is much more flexible in giving us 2, 3, 4, and 6.
Now that is some good ole American ingenuity :)