[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Time

[Nicholas Thomas]

On 10/09/06 10:40, Dan Bishop wrote :-
> Am Samstag, den 09.09.2006, 23:40 +0100 schrieb Nicholas Thomas:
>   
>> On 09/09/06 23:27, Dan Bishop wrote :-
>>     
>>> Am Samstag, den 09.09.2006, 23:16 +0100 schrieb Toby Smithe:
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>>>       
>>>> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:30 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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?
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>>>>         
>>> 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 :)
>>>
>>>
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>>>       
>> 12 can be divided in so many more ways than 10... go on, share your 10
>> sweets between three people then ;)
>>     
>
> Divide your 12 sweets between 5 people...
>
> Not a very convincing argument :p
2.4 is much easier than 3.3333333333333333333333 ;)

The point still stands, though - 12 can be divided exactly by 1,2,3,4,6
& 12. 10 can be divided by 1,2,5 & 10.

Well off-topic, mind :)

xF,

...Nick