On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:51:21 -0000, "NY" wrote:

I remember seeing articles in magazines which discussed in all seriousness
whether the world should devise new units of 50 metric seconds in a metric
minute, 50 of those minutes in a metric hour and 25 metric hours in a day.
Or some such calculation which resulted in a metric second being
*reasonably* close to a real second.

There was French Revolutionary Decimal Time, which "divided the day into 10
decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal
minute into 100 decimal seconds".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

which has other interesting tidbits about decimal time, i.e. Chinese decimal
time used in the 1 century BC.


Thomas Prufer