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WestJet converts to metric time
YouTube ^ | April 1, 2014

Posted on 04/01/2014 4:24:50 AM PDT by Squawk 8888

Effective today, WestJet is changing the way we display our flight schedules, switching from our current system of "a.m." and "p.m." to metric time. For more information visit http://fly.ws/Metric-time.


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To: Squawk 8888
You raised two thoughts in my mind:

I'm surprised lawyers haven't converted to metric time. One would think they'd love to charge 100 minutes in an hour vs. the normal 60.

You probably irked a few Trekkies whose calendars are set to Stardate.

41 posted on 04/01/2014 5:58:08 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

I think 3 kilohours is 3000 hours, a long wait to eat....lol


42 posted on 04/01/2014 6:09:53 AM PDT by B212
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To: Squawk 8888
Here's my Solution to measuring time in general:

13 Months a year of exactly 4 weeks (28 days)

That's 364 days accounted for

So we add a new month to the calendar. Let's call it "Midsummer" and stick it in the middle of summer. That will be when most of us take our vacation. Northern Hemisphere summer. Sorry Australia...New Zealand, et al. Sucks being you guys but you are at the bottom of the world and so you take your vacation in mid-winter.

That leaves one extra day - two on leap year.

Call that extra day New Year's Day and it's a holiday for all. On leap year, we get to celebrate Leap Day as well over a two-day period. We get extra drunk those years.

Now we have a symmetrical calendar. The first of each month will always be on a Sunday. The second of each month will always be a Monday, and so on. New Year's Day and Leap Year Day are their own days.

I think that's the way to do it. Let's do it.

43 posted on 04/01/2014 6:15:34 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Definitely!


44 posted on 04/01/2014 6:31:43 AM PDT by GreyFriar ( Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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45 posted on 04/01/2014 6:32:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Squawk 8888

I would have preferred Wentworth, but that’s just me. ;’)


46 posted on 04/01/2014 6:52:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: jdege

Now you have me confused. Exactly how many millifornights are in a kilofurlong?


47 posted on 04/01/2014 6:58:34 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: Squawk 8888

April Fools Day.


48 posted on 04/01/2014 7:07:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: mazda77
That will work perfectly with my metric adjustable wrench.

Is it left or right handed?

49 posted on 04/01/2014 7:13:46 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: Squawk 8888

It’s about frikin’ time we moved to metric time.

It is also a good time to tell everyone I saved $2500 on my health insurance premiums. Thanks Obamacare.


50 posted on 04/01/2014 7:26:49 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Mycroft Holmes

Seventy three centiscores and 42.8 gigahours ago our father brought forth...

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 1325 kilodays?

I ain’t got nothin but love girl, 76 hexahours a decaday....


51 posted on 04/01/2014 7:33:53 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Scoutmaster

You’re mixing units of time and length. A more appropriate question would be how many millifortnights in a nanocentury.


52 posted on 04/01/2014 7:54:38 AM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege

I understand that. Mixing metric units of mildly obscure time and metric units of mildly obscure length simply makes the concept even more delicious to my tastes.


53 posted on 04/01/2014 10:02:03 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

And since most airlines (United at least) already display time in military time (I will NEVER call it metric time), I don’t see what the big deal is.


54 posted on 04/01/2014 10:04:21 AM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

Works for.

will we be issued new Obama watches?


55 posted on 04/01/2014 6:48:23 PM PDT by John Galt's cousin (WTF? We couldn't rescue four men in Benghazi? Is our military IMPOTENT? ( /s ))
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To: John Galt's cousin

works for...me!


56 posted on 04/01/2014 6:54:08 PM PDT by John Galt's cousin (WTF? We couldn't rescue four men in Benghazi? Is our military IMPOTENT? ( /s ))
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