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Reposting bc I dun goofed before

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There was an attempt originally, 100 seconds a minute, 100 minutes an hour and 10 hours a day, but it never stuck

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds per day)