Decimalisation will ease the problems of jet lag by cutting the number of time zones.

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There are also price lists including tariffs in 1971, after decimalisation, when a pint of Worthington was 14p, a shandy was 7p, as was a cider.

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E-day was the 1971 decimalisation of the British and Irish currencies.

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The organisation points to decimalisation in 1971, when the UK's currency was swiftly changed and "people grumbled for a few days and then they got used to it".

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Long-distance travel will become simpler with decimalisation.

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