It was not. The current definition was established in 1983.
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It was redefined as 3 feet...
The metre was originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole running through Paris (making the distance from the equator to the north pole 10,000 km and the circumference of the earth 40,000 km [round that great circle]). It has since been redefined
Any unit of length: millimeter, meter, kilometer, light-year, etc.
The standard unit of length is the meter, and any multiple and submultiple such as kilometer and millimeter. Nonstandard units include foot, inch, mile, light-year, parsec, astronomical unit.
There were 365 days in 1993.