So how are one divide a year up? It doesn't divide into ten at all.
Except it does. The French Revolutionary Calendary made 12 months, granted, but the point is that one week equals ten days and one day equals ten hours. With scientific knowledge that one day is approximately 23 hours and 56 minutes and one year is approximately 365.25 days, decimal time can be used to better express these facts, in addition to adding to the metric standard.
Out of curiosity, is this going to require a reworking of the circle into something decimal? 100 degrees instead of 360?
Mathematically, yes you can express these two values as a function of ten, but not as a function of 10 and each other you are going to have some sort of remainder. Which negates decimalization only other real advantage (the first is standardization which Indicus addressed) ease of unit conversion.Except it does. The French Revolutionary Calendary made 12 months, granted, but the point is that one week equals ten days and one day equals ten hours. With scientific knowledge that one day is approximately 23 hours and 56 minutes and one year is approximately 365.25 days, decimal time can be used to better express these facts, in addition to adding to the metric standard.