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

Tim Shoppa (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu)
12 Oct 1995 17:00:25 GMT

In article <45egma$1akq@hopper.acs.ryerson.ca>,
INEN/W94 <acerase@acs.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>
>stopped doing that! As for the metric system - Hello!! America!!!
>Stop holding up the rest of the world by hanging on to your useless
>inch/fahrenheit/gallon system!!

Inch/fahrenheit/gallon? I always thought it was better
defined as the foot/pound/second system. (Or foot/slug/second,
depending on whether you prefer mass or weight.)

Tim.