Coins of Turkey eurozone since a number of vending machines at the time accepted the 1 new Turkish lira coin as a €2 coin. Since €2 is worth roughly four times more, vending machines affected had to be upgraded at the expense of their owners. From 1 January 2009, the "new" was removed from the second Turkish lira, its official name in Turkey becoming just "Turkish lira" again; new coins without the word "yeni" were introduced in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 kuruş and 1 lira. Also, the inner and outer alloys of the 50 kuruş and 1 lira coins were
Decimal time He also suggested a week of 10 days and dividing the year into 10 "solar months". Decimal time was officially introduced during the French Revolution. Jean-Charles de Borda made a proposal for decimal time on November 5, 1792. The National Convention issued a decree on 5 October 1793: These parts were named on 24 November 1793 (4 Frimaire of the Year II). The primary divisions were called hours, and they added: Thus, midnight was called either "dix heures" (10 o'clock) or "zero heures" (0 o'clock), noon was called "cinq heures" (5 o'clock), etc. Units were either written out or abbreviated,