--- Tony Eros <tony.eros(a)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(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!