From: Gordon J. Holtslander (holtsg@duke.usask.ca)
Date: 07/27/01-09:58:23 AM Z
I remember when the metric system was introduced in Canada.
One of our local radio stations decided to do a practical joke, must have
been on april 1st. - they said that the following month the whole country
had to convert to metric time. There was to be only 10 hours in a day.
They went on to say that the goverenment was going to set up centers where
people could exchange their old clocks for new clocks, but that only
digital ones would be available.
The really funny this was lots of people believed them! They had people
phoning in all day saying either they thought it was a terrible idea, and
even a few saying what a good idea it was.
Being a kid I was trying to figure out, if this was real, whether or not
this meant I would be able to stay up later.
Gord
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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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