Today 2004-10-10 is Metric Day. It is celebrated on the tenth day of the tenth month. The entire week is designated Metrication.

We honour this great system and those who have had the insight to bring about metrication world-wide and continue to do so.

You can celebrate by recognising all the changes that have taken place in your community since metrication began. Go to your deli counter at your local supermarket and ask for a metric amount and watch it being filled on a metric scale. Take note of all of the prepackaged goods with metric only labels.

Be proud of the fact that you are in a country using a modern and organised measurement system that all of your fellow citizens understand. Help be a part of the eradification of the remnants of the obsolete units.

So to all: Happy Metric Day

In that case, the second, fourth, eighth, twelfth, and sixteenth days of the second, fourth, eighth, and twelfth months, and all weeks in which those days are located, should be imperial days and weeks.

When imperial is officially dead, as it will be in the not so distant future, you can use those days as memorials. The rest of us will move forward using the progressive metric system.

Progressive metric? Reformed its welfare system lately, has it? Metric has just given its blacks the vote too, I guess.

I'd love it if it really was metric day!

ie: totally ignored! (bit like metric itself really so quite fitting!)

Someone hasn't been to Tesco's - I wonder if "anonymous" is really Carlyle with a glaring lie like that?

re (Anonymous): "Today, 2004-10-10, is Metric Day. It is celebrated on the tenth day of the tenth month".

REPLY: But this is *OCTO*ber - the *8th* month. Surely the time for metric celebration of their beloved decimal system is *DECEM*ber - the 10th month?

But then any day of the year is a good one to celebatre duodecimal sense because, hey, we have *12 months* in a year!

Pity Julius spoilt it all by insisting on his own personal month and requiring that it had 31 days. That brought February down to 29 days.

Then Augustus came along and said: "I want *MY* month as well, and it's got to be at least as long as Julius's", so then we had *another* 31-day month created.

Problem. They had to take another day away from somewhere else on the calendar. Poor old February suffered again - now down to 28 days.

Personally, I suggest they have 'metric day' on the same day as Europe Day - viz., May 9th - and get the whole thing over with in one period of, er, 24 hours

Is there really such a thing as Europe day? Jesus, I can beleive it- I pity those europeans sometimes, totally stripped of any real sense of belonging to a nation.

Bryan Parry wrote

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I pity those europeans sometimes
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I would remind you that the United Kingdom is part of the EU and will be holding the EU Presidency in the second half of next year.

re (Bryan Parry): "I pity those europeans sometimes..."

and re (martin): "I would remind you that the United Kingdom is part of the EU and will be holding the EU Presidency in the second half of next year"


REPLY: It seems as though Bryan made what is knowne in the trade as a 'Freudian slip'

Actually I think martin did, since you CAN be a eurpean and not be in the EU. A position I yearn for.....