On Mar 29 , at 11:32 AM, Parker Willey Jr. wrote:
I propose that we set Sunday 2010-10-10 be "M" day. We would
request that Congress pass a law requiring on that day that:
That is the place where your proposal likely would fail: "requesting
Congress to pass a law".
Before you can even come close to that, you have to persuade a sizable
number of them to even consider the metric system to be something
worthy of their consideration, and I don't think that will be done any
time soon.
He goes on to ask:
Is this date viable?
Don't worry about the date for finishing the project of metrication;
the problem is getting the powers that be to even consider starting it.
Bill Hooper
1810 mm tall
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
PS The date 10-10 (0ctober 10) is already recognized annually as
Metric Day and the calender week containing 10-10 is Metric Week.
Making something special of it in 2010-10-10 is a worthwhile thought.
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