> > And to think, by now we could have metric clocks and metric
> > calendars. Lets see, would a ten day week or ten day month
> > be more "natural"?

I relabelled a clock with a base 10 dial once, just for the hell
of it. You could still tell the time perfectly well by the position of
the hands but some people never twigged to that. You could
almost smell the overload between their ears as they tried 12
to 10 calculations

> My father was educated in imperial currency and imperial
> measurements and was the first to embrace the new system
> in Australia. We have 10 fingers and 10 toes, he'd say! :-)

Duodecimal never caught on in Tassy but ? ;-)

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