comp.os.linux.networking

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:44:37 +0000, EricThompson wrote:

> Well, your points are all well taken (I don't know where in the name of

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> It sounds accidental, somehow, like 5,280 feet in the
> mile. Are we gunna go metric, or not? Why not fix timekeeping to
> match?

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Metric has nothing to do with decimal (well ok it has but not in this
context) If you are talking about 10 Hrs, 100 Minutes etc. that is a
decimal system. If you are talking about a system of time based on some
fundamental property (or derivative) of the Metre then it is a metric
system

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