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If I was President, I'd issue an executive order to get us on the damned metric system.
I've been in Europe for 4 years now, and totally loving the metric system. Amazing how quickly one can get used to it. Especially good for building things, folks slip between meters, decimeters, centimeters, and millimeters often without giving units. "We need that 310 long... no, better make it 3105." No confusion.
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Heck yeah! We need a 10 hour day with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute. Each second would be slightly shorter, there would be about 7 new seconds in 6 old seconds.
A 30 old minute TV program would run about 25 new minutes, which in the new system is a quarter hour. One new hour would be 2:24 old hours, so a standard movie with commercials would have a run-time of about one new hour. Metric time was proposed when France was putting the metric system in place, but it was rejected because people did not want to give up their timepieces which were often the most valuable thing people owned. And how about a 13-month calendar while we're at it?