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In 1792, France experimented with decimal time, making a day 10 hours, an hour 100 minutes, and a minute 100 seconds. Why did this new standard for timekeeping not take off when so much of the world uses a base 10 system for measuring stuff?

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In 1792, France experimented with decimal time, making a day 10 hours, an hour 100 minutes, and a minute 100 seconds. Why did this new standard for timekeeping not take off when so much of the world uses a base 10 system for measuring stuff?	2927