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Originally Posted by MicroWave
Well, until someone decides that 24 hours per day makes no sense and we should introduce new hour unit which will be 10 new hours per day, 100 new minutes per new hour and 100 new seconds per new minute.
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Decimal hours and months were part of the original metric system as proposed in 1799, but they were too radical to catch on, even for the French revolutionaries.
As to IL2, I'm another dumb American who's only semi-literate in metric measurements, but IL2 has helped me a lot!
I find it helpful to think of the range icons as units of approximately 100 yards.
Attested by my hand, Year 220, Decade 27, Prairal 25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar