>>I thought they had a metric day ... Well ... they seem to have a 10-hour lunch break!
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>I think they had both a metric week and a metric day. There not being any clocks that used the new system, plus the fact that the old system was deeply ingrained into the culture, resulted in a failure.
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>But in principle, dividing the day into decimal fractions doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
I was using the subjunctive, as in "I thought that they HAVE (still)"
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