Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013)

Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by BlueTemplar on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:21PM (#20168296)

Sadly, the dozenal system was basically done for after the release of "The Art of Tenths" by Simon Stevin in 1585, and the resulting adoption by traders and tradespeople.

But well, the decimal system is probably the second best... My main gripe these days is the lack of consistency : while hours/minutes/seconds are not too bad, having computer screens in inches annoys me a lot ! (While TV screens are in centimeters, as expected.)

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Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by mrguyorama on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:10PM (#20168766)

>While TV screens are in centimeters, as expected.

This is not my experience in America. We have both computer monitors and TV screens in diagonal inches

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Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by BlueTemplar on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:51AM (#20172380)

I know - guess whose fault is it that those measurements in diagonal inches are still around ?

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