Dave Smith > wrote:

wrote:

>It doesn't really matter how often people use the measurements, they are
>part of the nonsensical system of measurement that so many people claim to
>be easier. Even the everyday measurement is nonsense.... 12 inches in a
>foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile etc. In metric, everything is
>based on 10s, so you don't have to convert metres to centimetres or
>kilometres. You just move a decimal point.

Of course, if you're truly commited to metric, you must measure
all time intervals in seconds and forget about using minutes and hours.
Thus, you smoke your ribs for 14,440 seconds instead of four hours.

You call that simpler?

Steve