Posted by Tim Roberts on 02/17/06 09:26

rjfjohnson@hotmail.com wrote:

>Personally I beleive that there should be 10 days per week, 10 weeks
>per month and 10 months per year, with 10 hours per day, 100 minutes
>per hour, 100 seconds per minute, and we should just suffer with out of
>phase moons, etc.

The French actually tried almost that exact system shortly after the French
Revolution, when they were trying to shed all remnants of the "old ways".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Calendar

It did not have happy results. Workers objected to having their weekly day
off of work come once every 10 days instead of once every 7...
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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