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Let’s do lunch – in 14 minutes
‘We’re stuck with the earth’s spin and orbit. So we have 365 days in a year, nothing we can do about that,’ says Nigel Ford at Dulwich Prep School.
But, he adds: ‘We could simply divide the day into 1,000 units. Each would be the equivalent of 86.4 existing seconds. We could group these in tens/hundreds as required.’
Meanwhile Alexander Moon at Beacon hypothesises: ‘If the second was shortened to 0.0864 of a second, we could have 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to and hour and 100 hours to a day. The working day would have to be extended to 33 hours a day, but those on an hourly rate would certainly benefit.
‘However, a lunch hour would only be 14 minutes in non-decimal minutes.’ Ah, that’s the flaw. We’d never get it adopted in France.
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