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GO METRIC !
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METRIC TIME
As you mey not be aware, from midnight on April 4th, 1992, the whole
of Great Britain (except Northern Ireland) will go over to metric
time. For those still unaware of the decimalisation of time, here is a
brief summary.
There are 10 seconds to the minute, 10 minutes to the hour, 10 hours
to the day etc as described below;
OLD TIME NEW TIME
1 second 1 milliday
1 minute 1 centiday
1 hour 1 deciday (or millimonth)
1 day 1 day
1 week 1 decaday
1 month 1 hectoday
1 year 1 kiloday
NOTE: the fortnight will be officially withdrawn.
Obviously, from a company's point of view, due to the fact that one
new hour represents only 5/12ths of an old one, employees will now
have to work 3.5 decidays per day. However for administration purposes
it is recommended that the lunch break be shortened by 2/3rds of a new
hour, thus making a total working time 4 new hours.
The wage change to allow for this is reccomended that any
compensentory uplift will be made to salaries except in the case of
leap kilodays; there an adjustment will be built in at the end of the
hectoday every 1.46 decamonths.
Holidays will be affected only so far as the change to metric time is
concerned and no one shall be worse off than previously. Thus if an
employee was entitled to 32 days old time, he will not be entitled to
220 decidays (or one hectoday plus 20 decidays) for every hectoday
over the above 20 kilodays service)
The Queens birthday will accordingly be reduced to 5 decidays and a
term 'a month of sundays' is not to be used on official documents.
(The correct term being 'a hectoday of decidays)