• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Oh, the French did try to “metric” time for awhile when the metric system was just being developed and introduced. And even they decided that was a very bad idea. Turns out Mother Nature does not care about base10 all that much when it suits her.

    On the other hand, it did lead to the saying that “The French follow no one and no one follows the French”