Why do we do this?
Is it out of habit, or is there any inherent advantage of measuring time by base 60?
Diving a circle into 360 degrees was also their idea.
In any case, these systems were adopted throughout the world and are now the standards of measuring time.
But what if we change the standards?
would be from tens into tens.
He also suggested a week of 10 days and dividing the year into 10 “solar months”.
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The system officially went into force on November 24, 1793.
Midnight began at zero hours (or 10 hours), and noon arrived at 5 hours.
Each metric hour thus became 2.4 conventional hours long.
Each metric minute became equivalent to 1.44 conventional minutes, and each metric second became 0.864 conventional second.
But the people never did transition to the new time.
Worse still, the Toulouse Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution supporting his proposal.
Fortunately, sanity prevailed and the proposal received little backing outside the Chamber of Commerce.
Again, the plan did not gain acceptance and decimal time was abandoned in 1900 for good.
Nobody has dared to touch the clock again.
