Decimal time
Have you heard of the idea to take time into decimals ending a three thousand year old tradition?
The idea floated would consist of a ten sip clock instead of twenty four hours. Instead of working eight hours people would work only three sips.
There would be a working day starting at three sips then a cup of coffee at four sips and lunch at five sips. At six sips, one would end one's working day. With four sips remaining and at least two further sips for sleep, one could fashion quite an easy life.
In a week, a labourer would put in 15 sips and about sixty sips in a month.
For the seasons, there would be about 900 sips per season and about 3600 per annum.
A few fanatics have proposed the word bell instead of sip. There was quite a debate whether ten bells seemed better than ten sips. The bell proposers were mainly from rural parts where the idea of ringing bells was very popular. The drinkers preferred sips and their larger numbers won the day.