I have been trying to read Essai sur l'unification internationale de l'heure (Essay on the international unification of the hour) by Joseph Charles François de Rey-Pailhade, published in 1893. Mostly it is about his proposal to use the centiday and the milliday, which he called cé and decicé, but he also writes about related subjects, including decimal time from a century previous, and includes examples such as:
3 heures 93 minutes (système décimal) 3hd 93mdIt's a bit awkward to use double letters for each unit, but it seems likely to be correct, so I going to use this notation from now on.
Decadi 30 Nivôse an CCXVIII à 5hd 77md t.m.P.
MJD 55215.570
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