> --- Tony Eros <tony.eros_at_machm.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, let's get rid of all those stupid non-metric
> > measurements. Especially those pesky units of time. I mean, what idiot
> > came up with "seconds", "minutes" and "hours", anyway? The "hours" even
> > repeat twice every "day" -- how stupid is that!
>
> Hopefully this is meant humorously. The second _is_ a metric unit
> of time, even though minutes/hours/etc are not reckoned in decimal
> intervals.
Well we used decimal minutes (one hundredths of an hour) in payroll and
time & motion guys use them too...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Tue Mar 06 2001 - 03:44:19 GMT