Re: Timekeeping
| From: | J.A. Mills <xenolingua@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 2, 1998, 17:57 |
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In a message dated 10/2/98 2:11:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fortytwo@UFL.EDU
writes:
<< For one, no one knows when record-keeping started.
> Nobody's satisfactorily answered my question yet. Why doesn't a "metric"
time
> system even exist? Is it because nobody can do the math?
I thought I gave a satisfactory answer: practicality. Ease of dividing
up the day/year, and so on.
>>
I beg to differ: practicality is a suitable response for why such a system is
not being _used_, not why such a system doesn't _exist_.