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Why have we not switched over to Decimal time? Is there a reason that this would be better or worse than what we have now?

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I suppose you could make minutes, seconds and hours whatever you want them to be.

Taking 365 days to orbit the sun is a bit inconvenient though.

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365 and a bit actually.
Maybe if you have a word with him upstairs, he'll fix it to a nice round figure,..say 1000 days,...but only problem with that is we'd all be cashing in our chips in our late twenties,..in our prime.:confused:....not good at all,...or on the other hand make it 100 days,...and we'll still be around to a ripe old age of 250 or so,...no not such a good idea at all,...maybe best just leave things as they are.:)
Wonder what happened to that other strange guy who was upset about Spanish clocks and reckoned they were robbing him of 2 hours of his life every day?
Maybe it was all too much for him and his time ran out altogether....:rofl:

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I just have to ask, are you going to duplicate all your threads?

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...in which possibility there's a worrying thought. This relates to daylight hours, I'd have said. :eek:

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Ok, if the days of the year were to be left alone would it make for a more efficiant life to change the rest into a decimalised time?

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where's ScarletPlumBlossom?:rofl:

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Yes,thats the one.
Probably disappeared in ever decreasing circles into his or her own black hole or time zone.:rofl:

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So many things could be done to improve the way we work all this. Wasn't there an idea of switching to a lunar calendar having 13 months of 28 days with an extra 'free day' every year, and every 4 years, a second free day.

If the free day(s) came after the end of Dec, and before the 1st of Jan, it wouldn't need to upset the calendar.

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Free day? You´ve got to be kidding......they´ll put IVA on it!:p

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I gather that Faraday or Edison was invited to the palace for dinner with the king, who turned to him and said "Do you suppose there will ever be a use for this electricity you have discovered?"

Faraday responded, "I have no doubt that your government will tax it tho."

Or something like that.

Only two certainties, - death and taxes.

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Next thing wio tax us on how many windows we have on our houses!:eek: :D

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Been done already!

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I know lol.