I found this in the entry for Metric Time on Wiki:
An opening scene of Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis shows a metric clock with ten numbers instead of twelve, illustrating the improved efficiency of future industrial society.
I like movie references but didn't know about that one.
17 posted on 12/01/2011 10:55:20 PM PST by Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
