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New EU ruling No.2
David Jenkins - 13/5/09 at 11:22 AM

All Europe must convert to Metric Time by 2020...

sickbag - 13/5/09 at 11:37 AM

Does this include the currency too?

JoelP - 13/5/09 at 02:08 PM

mostly nonsense, since time is not in base 60 anyway. If it were, we would need extra symbols from 10 to 59.

cd.thomson - 13/5/09 at 02:19 PM

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Originally posted by JoelP
mostly nonsense, since time is not in base 60 anyway. If it were, we would need extra symbols from 10 to 59.


it is a base 60 system but represented with decimal figures. Not a "true base 60", granted, but still "base 60". Even babylonians only had unique figures for 1 - 10.

JoelP - 13/5/09 at 05:10 PM

I stand corrected, said the man in the orthopedic shoes.

Ninehigh - 13/5/09 at 09:34 PM

Well that guy appears to want to make people's head's hurt...

And yet another idea of mine, stolen after about 5 years from when I thought it up...

Makes sense to me, just looks a bit daft, I'd like hours minutes and seconds not some "stardate"