Decimal Time
Ten hours to a day
How to read it
Point at a step, or tap it, to light up that part of the clock.
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The day has 10 decimal hours.
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Each hour has 100 minutes; each minute, 100 seconds.
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Decimal noon (5:00) is regular noon.
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One decimal second lasts 0.864 normal seconds.
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The story
Revolutionary France decimalized everything — meters, grams, and in 1793, the clock itself: 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds. Mandatory use lasted barely seven months.
- Year
- 1793
- Place
- Paris, France
- Creator
- The National Convention
Fun fact
A decimal minute is 86.4 seconds — the same length as one Internet Time beat, invented 205 years later.
