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The way we divide up our days is quite arbitrary. There's no reason except inertia not to have 100 seconds in one minute, 100 minutes in one hour and 10 hours in one day, with each second being 14% shorter than they currently are, which would be simpler for adding together different units of time. I know the French briefly did it after the revolution but switched back. So how can we make the Decimal clock the standard? I don't believe we could do this in the modern era, since it would screw up things like satellite orbits and computer systems that would all need their clocks changed but until 1882 we didn't even have standardized time zones, so it would be feasible.

Update: I clarified that each second would be shorter.
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