Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

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Steve Nicholas wrote:
> It is my opinion that time should be decimalised thereby doing away
> with the needs for standards for dates and times.

We have this system had for millenia now. We don't have these fiendish
fractions even, since we everything in base 287.79 do, which to be the
number of days in our year happens.

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