Ted Hopp writes > > Since we're speaking of the French (we are, aren't we?) what ever happened > to French Revolutionary Metric Time?
The other French attempts were less successful, such as the 12 30-day months. The French names for the months Vendémiaire, etc., were parodied in an English version: wheezy, sneezy, freezy, slippy, etc. One decimal dystem that survives is the grad (400 grad = 360 degrees), still used at least by surveyors, but Laplace used it in astronomical calculations. The Americans won't have the meter now, unless it's renamed the freedom-yard, I suppose. Raymond
