Tom Gardner wrote:

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The obvious question would be why? Why would anybody want to shift into a
metric time warp?



Have I ever been serious? I measure my fuel economy in furlongs per
hogshead...sound great!




The basic measure of time on the VMS operating system was based
on microfortnights, according to some of their documentation. If
you calculate it, that really isn't too far off a second.

Jon