Clock Goes Only To 10

[bennynobrain]

In Dundee I noticed a click in a building that only had 1 to 10. Duncan of Gordanstowne Art Collage any one know why

[THECORBYLOON]

https://sca-net.org/event/ruth-ewan-we-could-have-been-anything-that-we-wanted-to-be-and-its-not-too-late-to-change/

[douglas9401]

Duncan of Jordanstone art college.

It's arty, that's all.

[THECORBYLOON]

From the link,

"Resetting time is an abiding and representative leitmotif of revolution and 1789 is its quintessential expression. Desiring to introduce a new ‘civil era’, the French Revolution secularised and rationalised time by abolishing the 24 hour day in favour of a decimalised 10 hour day and by renaming every month of the year to reflect not the names of Gods or Kings but nature, science and the labouring classes. "

[Peter Pedant]

I wondered if it were the 10 hour French day
Ten days making a franciade
feasts ( not sundays of course ) every ten days - things like fete du Bien-Etre
Fun months like Thermidor ( good for revolutions) Messidor ( good for chopping peoples heads off)

gave up An XIII apparently - I thought long before

[hessian]

There is/was a clock on the sports pavilion of the National Physical Laboratory the showed 61 minutes for each hour.

[maggiebee]

The clock at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art is a beautiful installation which I have seen many times. Great talking point.

[jno]

the French revolutionary calendar had 12 months of three 10-day weeks: Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor.

An English version: Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy.

[Peter Pedant]

oh you spotted that Messidor - - -

the name of the month Messidor
doesnt take its name from Blood on the Floor

aaahhhh - ya wondered, innit

thank god I didnt get playful about Fructidor and having liddle bebbies

[douglas9401]

:-)