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On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 02:21, Don wrote: > 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... > > Nite all.... > > Don in DC Actually, Robespierre and the leaders of the Revolution did this five years before Napolean came to power. They were trying to remove all vestiges of Religion from society, so they renamed all the months and changed each month to 3 10-day weeks. This way, no one ever knew when it was "Sunday". Isn't the History channel great?! Joel http://www.rpgnext.com
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