Metrication+Committee

From :- ** Metrication Committee **

To:- **All Newsagents** Subject :- ** Metric Time **

As doubtless you will have read in the National Press from midnight October 22nd2000, the whole of Great Britain ( except Isle of Man ) will be converting to metric time.

From that date there will be 10 secs to the minute, and 10 minutes to the hour, 10 hours to the day and so on, delineated to the following table.

**__Old time__** **__New Time__**

1 Second 1 Milliday 1 Minute 1 Centiday 1 Hour 1 Deciday ( or Millimonth ) 1 Day 1 Day 1 Week 1 Decaday 1 Month 1 Hectoday 1 Year 1 Kiloday

** The fortnight will be withdrawn ** Obviously from the Board's standpoint due to the fact that one new hour represents 5/12ths of an old one, employees will be expected to work longer hours, viz. 3 1/8th decidays or millimonths per day. However, as this is inconvenient for administration and payroll purposes, it is intended that the lunch break will be shortened by 2/3rds. of one new hour, thus making a total daily working time of 4 new hours. It is not expected at this time that any compensatory uplift will be made to salaries, except in the case of leap kilodays, where an adjustment will be built in at the end of the hectoday every 1.46 decomonths. Overtime meal vouchers will be issued to non-management hectoday roll employees for the time worked in excess of 5/6ths of a deciday provided approval from local management has been obtained beforehand. The pension Scheme will not be effected, but superkilodayuation will be adjusted accordingly.

A further bulletin will be issued closer to Deciday but, if these arrangements present difficulties or if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact your immediate superior.

Leave will be affected only so far as the change to metric time is concerned and no one shall be worse off than previously. thus if an employee was entitled to 22 days ( old time ) he will now be entitled to 220 decidays or one hectoday plus 22 decidays for every hectoday over and above 20 kilodays service since the 10th deciday of the third hectoday of 1980. the Queen's birthday will accordingly be reduced to 5 decidays ( 6 south of Watford Gap ) but 10 demidecidays will be added, where relevant to the Christmas Break which will be moved, after 27 hectodays, to the Autumn Bank Holiday to take advantage of the longer shopping decidays. The Autumn holiday is cancelled. The term " a month of Sundays " is not to be used on official documents. The correct term will be " a hectoday of Decidays. "

Supervisory staff will be allocated 3 centidays per capita to clarify any points which may arise prior to Deciday. Lindburgh. Chairman
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