>>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.

Except that the divisions of the day actually have some meaning, unlike 'foot', 'yard', etc.

The funniest thing I ever heard around the whole metric thing was back when Canada was first introducing the metric system. A young woman I knew really hated the whole idea. She was hopping mad about it and one day she spat out at me that "the next thing you know they'll be making our money metric". I didn't have the heart to tell her.