[AT] Waaay O.T. - Odd pocket watch

JTakemoto at wildblue.net JTakemoto at wildblue.net
Thu Dec 6 17:20:12 PST 2007


You sure hit that nail on the head Mattias.
J.


> What can I say, I'll have to work on my typing (and writing English
> instead
> of english is my own protest against the big masses here that seems to
> believe we should do it that way too but we say english and England)
>
> Anyway, J, why would anyone make a watch like that 100 years after the
> revolution? Further
> more why then export it to the U.S. were the the Metric system seems to be
> a
> curse? I know, to annoy you! <WBG>
>
> Mattias
>
> 2007/12/6, JTakemoto at wildblue.net <JTakemoto at wildblue.net>:
>>
>> Farmer i found this in Wikipedia.com
>>
>> Decimal time
>> >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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>> French decimal clock from the time of the French Revolution
>> French decimal clock from the time of the French Revolution
>>
>> Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which
>> are decimally related. This term is often used to refer specifically to
>> French Revolutionary Time, which divides the day into 10 decimal hours,
>> each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into
>> 100 decimal seconds, as opposed to the more familiar standard time,
>> which
>> divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute
>> into 60 seconds.
>> >
>>
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