France once tried to do so in the day had 10 hours instead of 24 Bashny.Net

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Decimal time - this time representation based on decimal day. This term is often used when talking about the time of the French Revolution.

During the French Revolution, the day was divided into ten decimal hours, every hour was 100 decimal minutes, and each minute - 100 decimal seconds. Recall that in the usual system of representation of time every day for 24 hours, an hour - 60 minutes, and a minute - 60 seconds.

The main advantage of the decimal system time is that time division and its visual representation is used the same base and, therefore, the representation of time can be recorded as one line. Thus, it becomes easier to transfer hours in minutes, and minutes - in the second.

However, the system did not survive, and in French day still 24 hours.

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