At 20:08 +0000 02/08/10, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote: >Hi Mike: > The French failure of the Calendar and Time were not the reasons >that it lacked its links with the NUMBER system, but the *failure to >link arc-angle with TIME zones* i.e. the hour-angle. If this was >done,in that *had the Nautical Kilometre* been defined and linked to >METRE: as 1/100th of the *grad* it might have survived for some more >time, or may be could have continued and I would have learned that >way! > But, Napoleon's coronation could yet be another reason to abandone >the *Freedom calendar of France*. Could someone *enlighten me* on >this since I worked without any information on the subject!
see http://perso.wanadoo.fr/louis.jourdan/metrication-en/tempsen.html Louis
