Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

In a message dated 9/26/98 2:15:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
raybrown@CLARA.CO.UK writes:

<< It [the French decimal calendar] was adopted by the National Convention on
5 October 1793, retrospectively as from 22 Sept. 1792, and remained in force
until Napoleon
 abolished it & restored the Gregorian calendar on 1st Jan. 1806.

 Ray. >>

Isn''t it curious that they revised the weekdays into blocks of 10, but left
the months at 12?  Also, from Ray's information, I gather that the basic
building block of time--the second-- remained unchanged.  Was that perhaps due
to the inability to adjust the timepieces of the time (unlikely, huh?).  It
just seems like a half-baked effort.  IUnderstand the difficulty in a
democratic society of changing over to the metric system, but at least the
metric system exists.  After all this time (ha ha), why doesn't a better time
system exist?

JAM

JAM