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From: hermann@crin.crin.fr (Miki HERMANN)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates
Keywords: French revolutionary calendar
Message-ID: <596@crin.crin.fr>
Date: 2 Sep 88 18:28:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: crin.596
References: <1988Aug28.010835.17290@utzoo.uucp> <2882@hubcap.UUCP> <107@taux02.UUCP> <324@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: hermann@crin.crin.fr (Miki HERMANN)
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In article <324@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <107@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>>For scientific  purposes, time is  already presented in the  Julian date
>>system (e.g., the  time now is 2447402.78570 days). It  would be nice if
>>everybody used this system. Coming to  think of it, everybody should use
>>the binary system - it would be so much easier to program! :-)
>
>Continuing in the same spirit of humour:  the Imperial system of liquid
>measures *was* binary!


Even a better suggestion would be to use the French revolutionary
calendar. Does someone know which days is the 3rd "brumaire" of the
year 199?

Miki HERMANN
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