"Charlie" wrote in
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"Square Peg" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:28:04 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
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"HeyBub" wrote in message

Today, with every tick of the atomic clock at the National Bureau
of Standards, Microsoft Windows is booting up somewhere on the
planet (often
for the fourth time today).

As long as we are making changes, let's go to the 24 hour clock. No
confusion about AM or PM when the clock strikes 1800 hours.

Very unimaginative. We go to some type of metric day (base 10). We
also go to a metric year (10 months) with 10 (not 12) deciyears,
etc., etc., etc....

Keeping that idea, would those posters and lurkers who either are not
in the US or are in the US but are not natives post a note with the
following bit of information.

What is the reference country?
How are eggs sold there by the dozen or by ten?

Charlie

Born in Holland. Eggs are sold by 10's like everything (appropriate)
else. The concept of a dozen exists, but don't ask for a dozen of this
or that.

Decimal pounds (1 pond=500 g=0.5 kilo) used to be a common unit, but
somewhat less so these days.

Decimal "ounces" (1 ons=100 g).

Dutch Albert Heyn main website: http://www.ah.nl/not responsible for
web content. Efteling is something between 6 Flags and Disneyworld (I
think).

Parent (Royal Ahold) owns Stop&Shop and other US supermarkets.

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Best regards
Han
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