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During the French Revolution, Revolutionary French devised a metrication of time as they had other units of measurement. This included a metrication of the week with the French Revolutionary Calendar, where there are three ten-day weeks per month.

Decimal time has many benefits, where we can use the approximately 23 hour 56 minute rotation of Earth and divide it to make 10 hours to a day, which we can subdivide into 100 minutes and thus 100 seconds, producing regularity akin to how the metric system works as well as more accurate than our current time system. A criticism of the original French Revolutionary calendar was its treatment of weekends, which in the context of a modern 40 hour work week, I imagine would typically have Day 1, 10, and 5 as "off-days" and the rest as work-days.

I believe this system has many benefits (and not just because I like the French Revolutionary Calendar in general). The question is, is there a way to get decimal time to become mainstream globally? In a world without the French Revolution, would reformers come to decide decimal time as a good idea and political leaders institute it?
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