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Thaks, Don. As a correction to myself, my reference to Lenin was something I had heard, but the following link was all I could quickly find on it. It
says it was the French Revolution originally, which also doesn't mean Napoleon didn't try it.


http://www.geocities.com/calendopaedia/m-w-d.htm

There was another early French effort to "deca-metricize" the hours and minutes that flopped. Some things are just "natural". (Like binary in computers, eh?)

- Alan

Hello Don, Barbara, Joel:
Don: this reminds me of what Napoleon tried to do back years ago. Change the week from 7 days to 10, as I'm told. He discovered fairly quickly that his troops fatigued substancially faster and deteriorated substancially faster...so he moved back to the old 7. I guess somewhere there's a reason for the design of why things are the way they are...


=> "..Working as designed..", eh? I also have read that Lenin tried the same thing (for boosting productivity supposedly) and it didn't work there either.



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