21 Jul '08 12:00>
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThe thing with metricising the clocks is that you can't do it thoroughly. You can have 10 days to the week, 10 hours to the day, 100 minutes to the hour and 100 seconds to the minute, but what you can't do is make the Earth go round the Sun in exactly 100 times the period in which it turns around its own axis, nor make the Moon go round in a neat number of days.
They tried to change the clocks, but it never caught on.
So while you can give us 100 cents to the euro, and 100 cm to the metre, instead of 12 pence to the shilling (or was it 12 s. to the L.?), or 13 furlongs to the firkin, and have that whole system completely stitched up with round factors to the last unit, no matter what you do with time, you'll always end up with weird factors there. So, most people apparently conclude, you might as well not bother to come up with half a solution.
Richard