The world will move over to Metric Time starting on this date one year from now.  It was decided at the United Nations this week to bring everyone in the world to the same time standard.  U.N. Chairman, Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark, said, "It is high-time to get with it!"

How does this work?  There will be 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, and only 20 hours in one day.  There will be no AM or PM.  Noon will now be 10.  Midnight will be 20.

"It's about time," said U.S. President Obama as he signed the time bill into law in the United States.  Everyone will all need to buy new clocks, wristwatches, microwave ovens, and alarm clocks.  "This will be a real boost for manufacturers, retailers, and the economy.  You'll even buy new cars because existing car clocks cannot be converted to metric," the president said. 
 

The 14:19 time is what you would associate today with late afternoon.  15:00 is the new 6 PM.  

Out with the old and in with the new!

Gone are the days of old clocks.

Soon, traditional 12-hourt time pieces will appear in museums as "relics of the past."

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