Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

In a message dated 9/26/98 7:49:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
fflores@TAU.WAMANI.APC.ORG writes:

<< Either our sources are different, or I remembered a wrong number.
 Anyway, maybe people could *vote* for the day length. Twould be a terrible
electoral fight -- imagine if you could decide to extend your sleeping hours
by voting on the base of the time-measuring system! The Lazy Sleepers and the
Tightly Scheduled vs. ... Well, actually, who'd be against?

 I remember reading about the protests in England when they adjusted the
calendar from Julian to Gregorian, and people went out to the strees to claim
that they'd been robbed ten days out of their lives.


 --Pablo Flores >>

Wasn't there a time during the French Revolution when the people were switched
over to a calendar based on decimals (10's, 100's)?  If somebody has more
information on this, feel free to lecture.  I've never been able to figure out
why most conlangers choose to translate things like "pounds", "miles", and
"hours" into the conlang without devising a new system.

JAM