Re: Why RPG IV ....

[Alan C <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thaks, Don. As a correction to myself, my reference to Lenin was 
something I had heard, but the following link was all I could quickly 
find on it. It
says it was the French Revolution originally, which also doesn't mean 
Napoleon didn't try it.

http://www.geocities.com/calendopaedia/m-w-d.htm

There was another early French effort to "deca-metricize" the hours and 
minutes that flopped.  Some things are just "natural". (Like binary in 
computers, eh?)

- Alan

> Hello Don, Barbara, Joel:
> Don: this reminds me of what Napoleon tried to do back years ago. 
> Change the week from 7 days to 10, as I'm told. He discovered fairly 
> quickly that his troops fatigued substancially faster and deteriorated 
> substancially faster...so he moved back to the old 7. I guess 
> somewhere there's a reason for the design of why things are the way 
> they are...
>
> => "..Working as designed..", eh?  I also have read that Lenin tried 
> the same thing (for boosting productivity supposedly) and it didn't 
> work there either.