Kg v pound

[Jeff Gaines]

I remember a while back somebody ran an April fool's joke that the government was thinking of introducing metric weeks - with ten days in them.

The unions went ape.

[Bob Eager]

My ISP allows you to be billeed in lunar months.

[jon]

We used to have trolley buses,but someone decided otherwise.

[jon]

Not sure on that one, thought I was using Ergs, BTHUs, Dynes etc.

[HVS]

On 03 Jul 2022, JNugent wrote

Putting aside the comparative costs of running a car vs using your bus pass, may your health remain good enough not to lose your driving licence on health grounds.

I know many people whose conditions are sufficiently limiting to restrict their entitlemenet to drive, but aren't sufficiently impairing to qualify for a disability concession.

[Fredxx]

If they paid sufficient so the pot was big enough to pay their future pensions I might agree. Instead your generation left the finances in the red, that is without any pot for your pension payments.

It's made trebly worse:

1) Current working tax payers are paying your pension 2) Current working tax payers don't get free bus travel 3) Current working tax payers will have to work longer to get their pension

If only you had put enough into the system before you took your pension.

[Fredxx]

Then build more roads. Increase the number of parking spaces. The only ones who want to make it difficult for those who work, are the ones who don't.

[Tim Streater]

Anyway the point is not about a metric system. It's about everybody using the same system. Which in the case of seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks/months, we do.

[charles]

Probably depended on which board. Mine was O&C.

[Bev]

True!

We have trolls but I haven't yet spotted the undead.

[Robin]

one data point is

which uses CGS (and looks scarily difficult after so very many years of disuse).

[Jeff Gaines]

That is not how the State Pension works, it is designed so that current tax payers fund current pensioners.

[Chris J Dixon]

I was paid every 28 days, in a couple of engineering companies, for over 30 years.

It used to be the case that, every so often, they had to align pay days with tax years. Good news: this pay packet is for 5 weeks. Bad news: it is 5 weeks before you get paid again. Suddenly there was not enough extra to meet the big calendar monthly bill. :-(

Fortunately this rule went away.

Chris

[Richard]

They can't maintain the current roads to a decent standard and you want them to build more?

[Robin]

I'd not heard of that problem - and am surprised it was done as the tax system copes fine with 4-week pay periods. The only twist is that in some years there are 14 pay periods. Deductions for the 14th one are done on a non-cumulative basis which means deductions can be different from usual, and the employee may end up owing tax (which would usually be recovered by adjusting the PAYE in a future year). A bit complicated but nowhere near as messy as no pay for 5 weeks.

[JNugent]

UK Retirement Pension (if not paid weekly) is paid lunar monthly.

[JNugent]

...in response to...

...and:

The French actually *did* it.

They still had twelve months, but weeks were replaced by 'decades' (I know...) consisting of ten days each.

QUOTE: Ten days of the week

The month is divided into three décades or "weeks" of ten days each, named simply:

primidi (first day) duodi (second day) tridi (third day) quartidi (fourth day) quintidi (fifth day) sextidi (sixth day) septidi (seventh day) octidi (eighth day) nonidi (ninth day) décadi (tenth day)

Décades were abandoned at the changeover from Germinal to Floréal an X (20 to 21 April 1802).[12] ENDQUOTE

[JNugent]

Even at the current price of nearly nine quid a gallon, and bearing in mind also the much reduced mileage I do since retirement, the car wins hands down, whether for a seven bagful weekly supermarket sweep of for a trip to a jam session with musical equipment in the boot.

So far, so good.

Mind you, one of the available cars is more akin in access to a jet fighter. Getting in or out is a trial. That one might be going in exchange for a more sedate vehicle.

[JNugent]

How does that invalidate the factual point that the French did formulate and operate a ten-day week (and incidentally, enforced it in every part of Europe they then ruled, which mat have been bigger than you think)?

[JNugent]

ISTR that the police used to pay in that way.