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What time is it really?
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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 406399" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>No. All times are relative it's only a convention that the world is split into time zones. It was only Britain's imperial might that defined Greenwich as being the divide between East and West.</p><p></p><p>There was an attempt by the French during the French Revolution to set up a rival dividing line through Paris but they also wanted to decimalise it and that scuppered its chances.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, and related to the question, they also tried to decimalise the calendar. They still retained 12 months but divided them into 30 days and made the equivalent of the week 10 days long, giving 3 "weeks" to each "month".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 406399, member: 176256"] No. All times are relative it's only a convention that the world is split into time zones. It was only Britain's imperial might that defined Greenwich as being the divide between East and West. There was an attempt by the French during the French Revolution to set up a rival dividing line through Paris but they also wanted to decimalise it and that scuppered its chances. As an aside, and related to the question, they also tried to decimalise the calendar. They still retained 12 months but divided them into 30 days and made the equivalent of the week 10 days long, giving 3 "weeks" to each "month". [/QUOTE]
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