David Jenkins
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| posted on 13/5/09 at 11:22 AM |
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New EU ruling No.2
All Europe must convert to Metric Time by 2020...
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sickbag
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| posted on 13/5/09 at 11:37 AM |
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Does this include the currency too?
Finally back on the job!
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JoelP
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| posted on 13/5/09 at 02:08 PM |
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mostly nonsense, since time is not in base 60 anyway. If it were, we would need extra symbols from 10 to 59. 
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 13/5/09 at 02:19 PM |
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quote:
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.
Craig
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JoelP
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| posted on 13/5/09 at 05:10 PM |
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I stand corrected, said the man in the orthopedic shoes.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/5/09 at 09:34 PM |
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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"
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