George Gwilt wrote: > On 24 Sep 2006, at 21:56, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > >>Shall we ponder how this rumour will work? Start with clock faces >>changing from 1-12 to 1-10. > > Napoleon tried to make the time go metric. I actually saw an example > of a French clock of the period which had ten hours per day. > > It didn't take on Napoleon must have been before his time.
Along with the French Revolutionary [metric] Calendar: 12 Months of 30 days, each of 3 weeks of 10 days each week; an extra 5/6 days were a holiday at the end of the year; the clock was also changed to have 10 hours per day, each of 100 minutes, each of 100 seconds[1]. It lasted from 1792AD = 1FRC until 15FRC = 1806AD. [1] So the FRC second was 0.864 [Gregorian?] seconds long. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
