/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12007089
During the french revolution a movement was made to change the way we mesure things, you know, the metric system
that extended to time as well, so for a time in france there was indeed "kiloseconds", so for writing time it was
>XI. Le jour, de minuit à minuit, est divisé en dix parties, chaque partie en dix autres, ainsi de suite jusqu’à la plus petite portion commensurable de la durée.
>XI. The day, from midnight to midnight, is divided into ten parts, each part into ten others, and so forth until the smallest measurable portion of duration.

>La centième partie de l'heure est appelée minute décimale; la centième partie de la minute est appelée seconde décimale. (emphasis in original)

>The hundredth part of the hour is called decimal minute; the hundredth part of the minute is called decimal second.

whe Napoleon came to power he removed decimal time because it was too confusing, and also the church kept using the old time we still use