Vorgeschlagene Idee während der Französischen Revolution, französische Departements in geometrische Quadrate zu unterteilen. Die Dezimalzeit wurde 1793 auch in Frankreich eingeführt, mit 100 Sekunden = 1 Minute, 100 Minuten = 1 Stunde und 1 Tag = 10 Stunden.

I’d make a chess reference but then I’d sound like a monarchist

Definition of over-cooking.

What could possibly go *right?*

They later used the same method on Africa so I’m willing to argue they learned from this but in a bad way.

„Decimal time was also introduced in France in 1793 with 100 seconds= 1 minute, 100 minutes=1 hour and 1 day=10 hour.“

Yet still, their 80 is 4*20. Right.

This is also shortly before they created the Metric system.

Ah yes, the autistic revolution

Let me guess, the calendar consisted of 10 day weeks, 10 week months and 10 month years?

A new clock and new calendar is just too much work.
There’s 86,400 seconds in a day. That French clock would have had 100,000 seconds in a day, the equivalent of a 28 hour day. Unless they were going to shorten the length of a second, idk how all that was supposed to work.

And here I am wishing for the non-decimal currency… 🙁

That’s quite understandable, at least the current system is a tad bit complicated.

France is a wet dream of the agrarian Bureaucracy.

Sometimes the right-wing agrarian bureaucrats rule, sometimes the left-wing agrarian bureaucrats, sometimes the centrist agrarian bureaucrats and sometimes even the military agrarian bureaucrats, but always the agrarian bureaucrats.

The amount of local government is absolutely incredible. Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements, which should not be confused with the 333 arrondissements into which the rest of France is divided. They are completely different things even though they have the same name. There are 13 provinces, 96 departments and 1996 cantons. Their responsibilities overlap with each other, and in some places something belongs to the department, in some places the same thing belongs to the arrondissement and in others it is the canton’s business.

In addition to these, there are of course 34,826 municipalities, each of which has its own local government, taxation and responsibilities, which of course overlap and cross over with the aforementioned parties. And to make things even easier, there are of course also 710 municipal associations in France. Most municipalities, but not all, also belong to associations of municipalities, of which there are 2585. These too all have their own local government.

In addition, Marseille is divided into 16 arrondissements and 8 sectors. These too, of course, all have their own local government.

Of course, the 15 overseas regions, but not Corsica, also have their own regional government, which may or may not be the same as in mainland France.

I don’t understand how the entire French population is enough for all those levels of government, including political representatives and civil servants.

I worked at a print shop where the time clock was on the 100 minute clock. At least what it put on your time card. The actual clock was not. One day someone put a hand written conversion so you could look at your time card and figure out easier what was 30 minutes later and what not. Owner ripped it down. He was friends with my dad through Rotary and said that it saved him money because people would clock out a few ‚minutes‘ off and with rounding he saved a bit here or there. That he took that time and energy to figure it out and was gleeful sat wrong with my dad (and he felt it was against the rotarian creed). My dad made one up and printed it (this was the 90s) and made little wallet card laminated for me and my coworkers. Only rule was to keep it hidden from the boss.

Sometimes I still think about things like that and watch videos on the 60 minute hour and whatnot.

They should at least have gone with triangles.

France, but Europe colonized it

Fun fact, you can buy a decimal watch from Svalbard Watches. They have a model that has both standard and Decimal time.

I’m very in favor of a metric time, specially when we have people living outside earth for a long time

>100 seconds= 1 minute, 100 minutes=1 hour and 1 day=10 hour.


The new calendar lasted longer than you’d think: much longer than metric clocks, for instance.

Just an absolute terrible idea. If they had just made the meter the size of a yard we would have metric in the US right now.