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When I was a kid, I was such a nerd, that I invented my own decimal timekeeping system.
Even wrote a little macOS menubar clock for it — I was dead-serious.
Edit: omg the website still works, even though I never put any real content there …
http://yreality.net/UJD/
Edit 2: Found this old explanation I apparently put together in July 2010, according to my image archive:
That's pretty cool! The French actually had a decimal time system after the revolution, but they eventually abandoned it.