To: Squawk 8888
The original design from the time of the French Revolution was to have a decimalized time system. A day would be divided into 10 hours, an hour would be divided into 100 minutes, and a minute would be divided into 100 seconds. Therefore, all time based calculations would be decimal based without the need to go from seconds to hours.
17 posted on
04/01/2014 4:59:32 AM PDT by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: reg45
How did they deal with the whole “week/month/year” thing?
24 posted on
04/01/2014 5:14:39 AM PDT by
catman67
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