Wouldn't it be easier if time was decimalised?

Answer 1

Yeah it would. Why did we decide to have it based on funny numbers?

French Revolutionary Decimal Time
24h = 1.0d
1h = 0.0416d
30m = 0.02083d
15m = 0.010416d
5m = 0.003472d
1m = 0.000694d
1s = 0.0000115740d

Decimal time was first used during the French Revolution. Clocks and watches were built with the hours were numbered 1-10, with 10 for midnight and 5 for noon. There were 10 decimal hours in a day, 100 decimal minutes in an hour and 100 decimal seconds in a decimal minute, so 0.98765 day = 9h 87m 65s.

So meet you down the pub at 0.6845?

The French Republican Calendar was used countries controlled by France from 1793 to 1805 very similar to the ancient Egyptian and Alexandrian calendars, still used by the Coptic Church. Not only did the Republican Calendar include a decimal week, but also decimal time. Months of the Republican Calendar were divided into three décades, of ten days each. There were twelve 30-day months in a year, plus five or six festival days at the end.

Thus- the Roman Catholics are solely to blame for our ridiculous saint-based Julian/Gregorian calendar

Answer 2

Yes. Maybe if you start, the world will fall in line behind you. Problem is I think in the States it will be resisted much like the metric system. Because we all know that it's so easy to think in terms of 64ths of an inch!

Answer 3

I've been saying this for years, it would make life a lot easier.

Answer 4

No, I have a decimalized time clock at work and it is a beast to try and figure out properly

Answer 5

Have you devised a way to do without the leap year?

Answer 6

Easier? I think it'll be more complicated.

Answer 7

It is isn't it? Digital clocks have decimal points!!! lmao

Answer 8

no but it would be easier if it was not imperial, but metric

Answer 9

or caramelised sounds better

Answer 10

Not sure what that means.