[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Time

[Bruce Cowan]

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 23:39 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:

> It could easily be simply 1/1000 of a day (1/100 of an hour, which is
> 1/10 of a day) in a similar manner to a millimetre being 1/1000 of a
> metre (1/10 of a centimetre.) Why the hell not, except for the old
> argument "we've done it this way for a very long time" that has
> quashed both the metric system in America and Esperanto worldwide, and
> many other things besides, no doubt. 
Sounds like you mean Swatch Internet Time -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
It is available in GNOME as a option in the clock preferences.

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