Hola MaHigh-School - February 2020

mer. But not exactly start on anything.
21 December is solstice. Could it have a link there?
Sort of yes, but remote.
March at least is having the Equinox on 21 March.
25 march is just as good as anything then. Only four
days to argue about.
What now if we should campaign for having the year
starting 21 march – Equinox. Or at least 1 March?
On the other hand, this 60 minutes and 60 seconds
and 24 hours and so on. It is confusing!
Why not try to use the decimal system in the calendar:
1 hour = 100 minutes. 1 Day = 10 hours – or
something like that.
Of course it was tried. In France. During the revolution.
Where the entire world got into the decimal
system.
1 March was the first day in the year (hoorah!), but it
still had twelve months. Every month had 3 groups
of ten days. Easy. But people quickly realised that
they only had three weekends per month! And the
working week (10 days) was rather long. Oh yes. The
‘extra’ days got added on to the end of the year.
The politics got into it and the start of Year II (yes,
roman numerals!) got to be 22 September.
The decimal time never
caught on, but the clockmakers
did do some time pieces.
Finally, Napoleon canned the
whole thing.