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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't the French try that after the revolution?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, base 10, base 10 everywhere.

Chad ancestors splited 1 year of 10 months of 3 décades of 10 days of 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds and so on. With 5 or 6 "sans-culotides" to handle leap years.

Also each unit of a decade is related to a fixed name: for example, "primedi" (first day of decade) is the 1st, 11th and 21th days of any month, "duodi" 2nd, 12th and 22th, "tridi" 3rd, 13th, 23th and so on until décadi fot 10th,20th and 30th and last day of the décade.

Jesse would approve that