Work days

One of the common objections to decimal time is that ten isn’t evenly divisible by three, so how are workers going to have three shifts a day, which currently makes for eight hours per shift? How will they have the same number of workdays with ten-day weeks?

kWh is not an SI or Metric Unit

Check out this article from an automotive website, 

Analog clock

You may have noticed that there is now an analog decimal clock on every page. I also made a full-page clock, perfect for a desk or nightstand. I wrote my first virtual, decimal, analog desk clock in the early 1980s in BASIC on an Atari 800. I remember that the computer’s internal clock was a 3-byte register that incremented 60 times per second, or in one “jiffy.” Three bytes meant that it would roll over every 3.238 days to 0. There was no battery, so it had to be reset every time you turned it on. The was also no Internet to set it automatically. It was as primitive as can be! 

Decimal meetings

In another century, an earlier version of this site would host web meetings of decimal time enthusiasts from around the Globe, at odd times like 51234.6, which would be 14:24 GMT. It was guaranteed that somebody was losing sleep! It was very primitive, text only, no audio or video. I created our own chatroom back then, with decimal timestamps, and each user would see their own favorite format, such as Republican, Julian Date, etc. Some invented their own. Now, we can use great online conferencing platforms, like Zoom.

So, what do you think?

Captain’s log, stardate 60009.3. 

Republican wall calendar

 

Ever wish you had the Republican calendar hanging on your wall? Well, you can!

Dates and times here

All Republican calendar dates on this site are according to The  Original Calendar, with years starting on the day of equinox, unless specified otherwise. I know that some prefer the revised calendar, which would be easier to use, but TOC was the only one actually used. 

Metric Time Unit

After reading the law naming the metric units, I noticed a pattern:

Twitter

My Twitter account is @JohnDHynes. I will be using the hashtag #DecimalTime. 

The following accounts tweet the Revolutionary date daily. The first two use the Republican calendar, and the others use the reformed calendar. 

@EreRepublicain

@SansCulotides

@gibus 

@FrenchCalendar

@Calendrier_Rep

@EspaceFrancais

For information about wall calendars, follow @JacobinCalendar. It will probably be a while before she has more available, but she’s said that before. 

Metric law

I found the law which established the metric time system.  

Updates

I have updated a number of pages, and created some new ones. You may have noticed the analog click on each page.