• stjobe
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    2 years ago

    They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn’t work all that well :)

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      I think it was 10 day week with only one day weekend. So 9 days of work instead of 6. Not sure why people didn’t like it.

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              2 years ago

              100 longer decimal minutes. One Earth’s rotation was divided into 10 decimal hours, so each decimal hour was 2.4 standard hours.

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                You’re telling me they worked 24 hours at a time?!

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                    I might have gotten mixed up. My thought process was, they worked 10 hour days, and you said each decimal hour was 2.4 regular hours. So 10×2.4 = 24