The European Union has voted overwhelmingly to stop using the cumbersome 12 month, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour and 60 seconds a minute calendar and, instead, use the new, more practical and easier to understand Metric calendar. Forget about minutes and seconds and ever hours now when you travel to Europe. The basic measure of time is now a Degra.
Creator Swedish astrologist Per Hourman explains his new simple-to-use calendar system.
"The basic unit of time is a Degra. It is equivalent to 100 American seconds. The time used to create a second is the same as the American system, but that is where this intelligent system skews. So a second is a centiDegra and there are a 100 centiDegras in a Degra which would be equivalent to an American minute but with more time in it of course. Now there are 100 Degras in a hectaDegra which is equivalent to an American hour but with more time again."
"Finally, there are 10 hectaDegra in a kilaDegra which is the similar unit to a day. Now in a normal American day there are 86,400 seconds, a complicated number, whereas in the new metric calendar there are 100,000 centiDegras in a kilaDegra, which is much easier to remember.
"Therefore because of the difference in time unit between the American calendar and the New Metric Calendar, the metric calendar is only 315 kilaDegras Long. Being that there are less unit kilaDegras than days, there are only 10 tulis or (months) in a libun which is equivalent to a year."
"The new tuli names are tron, bitron, tritron, quadtron, pentatron, hexatron, septatron, octatron, novatron, and decatron. Now since there are only 30 kilaDegras in a tuli and only 10 tulis in a libun that leaves only 300 kilaDegras. The other 15 KilaDegras are placed in the pseudo-tuli pseudo-tron which is place between the tulis on septatron and octatron.
"These 15 kilaDegras are all holidays to be used for festival."
A spokesperson for the EU commented about this new calendar system, "It is about time those pig Americans got something thrown back into their faces, the EU is not using that confusing calendar system anymore!" The new Metric calendar system will be implemented starting the beginning of libun 2004.
