Australia converts to decimal time...
Australias Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has confirmed that Australia will convert to the use of a Decimal Time standard. As most people will know, Julia Gillard is Australias first female prime minister. She rose to the job by displacing the incumbent...
Love it!
If you find the need a couple of days hence to sell some of your watches at a substantial discount please advise :-) Best, Gary
Is it a good idea...
...to declare an April Fool's joke in the title of your response? Just about terminates the original point of the post.
good thing Voutilainen has already made a repeater for it!
Very funny, thanks. And a happy April to you too! Best Andreas
Excellent post which reminds us something here in France.
Decimal time was put in place after the French Revolution. Hopefully it didnn't last too long... because it was not a joke. Fx ...
Thought exactly the same thing. Revolutionnaries had a special sens of humour.
For most of their jokes, the make it short... cheers ;) Francois
LOL, I have ordered new dials, just waiting for a reply from..
a reluctant manufacturer:) Cheers, Francois
with her welsh heritage why would i not be surprised :)
they should save a lot of money by buying up all of the Swatch Beat Decimal time watches produced in 1999. i couldnt find a pic on the web, but i'm sure there is one somewhere. G
How could you, Pplater? With all due respect to your notoriety..
How could you put in the same basket our ex PM Paul Keating and Pinocchio? I, for one, long for a political figure, been it of the female or male gender, with vision. Even taking my binocular I can't see any and not only in our cherished Land Down Under, ...
I was 3/4 the way through reading...
...before I remembered today was April 1st! Man, do I feel stupid... Emil
You almost got me, pplater!
Your Prime Minister being an Aussie and a woman I thought the story to be possibly true (please forgive all Aussies and women :-)! I have been to Australia and know some Aussies as very nice and clever and funny people and have no profound misconceptions ...
Am I missing something? Is the joke...
...that Australian PMs are elected to that office? Anyhoo, it's now CCXXI/7/14 9h54m56s according to Mr De Borda. Time for laptop to shut down.
:-)
There's been 32 month of continual noise concerning the legitimacy of the present government, with 5 months before the intermiable chatter may cease. No doubt to be replaced with a slightly different pitch of rhubarb. This place is an escape.
But this could only affect the Southern Hemisphere, right?
Well done, pp! I nearly missed this!