"bert" wrote in message
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SO why isn't the clock metric? I still have my Casio calculator from the
70s which could work in hrs and mins.

I remember seeing articles in magazines which discussed in all seriousness
whether the world should devise new units of 50 metric seconds in a metric
minute, 50 of those minutes in a metric hour and 25 metric hours in a day.
Or some such calculation which resulted in a metric second being
*reasonably* close to a real second.