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- GO METRIC !
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- METRIC TIME
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- 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;
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- 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
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- NOTE: the fortnight will be officially withdrawn.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)