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A comment on Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013). Parent comment

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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