[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Time

[Dan Bishop]

Am Samstag, den 09.09.2006, 23:16 +0100 schrieb Toby Smithe:
> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:30 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
> > On 09/09/06, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         It's more a ratio than it is a decimal, though. 
> > 
> > It should be decimal. Stupid 60-worshipping ancient people... 
> 
> Two points:
> 1. Why must it be base 10 to not be stupid?

Because then it is nice and easy for everyone to work with. That's
surely why the foot, the inch, the yard, the mile and so on are not SI
units? They're just too complex to work with. Three of these in a that
and twelve of that in a this, why? 10 is a nice number :)