John,

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:19:21 -0700, John Ferrell wrote:

> 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"?

There's nothing "natural" about the metric system (see my other post) - the metre was supposed to be a
millionth of the distance from Paris to the North Pole, but I believe they got it wrong anyway.  A year is
what it is, and it refuses to be divisible by any easy number, regardless of what number system you use!  It
would make more sense to use months that alternated between 31 and 30 days (5 and 7 respectively) but poor
February was robbed by Julius and Augustus Ceasars, so "their" months could be longer.  Note that they also
put themselves in the Summer, so they'd have the best weather!  Just goes to show that politics will always
try to get in the way of common sense...

And whatever we do we'd still need leap years.

Personally I don't mind how many hours there are in a day, but I'd rather the day started at dawn, so the
whole night belongs to the day before, but I don't suppose anyone would listen if I tried to get it changed...

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England

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