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FYI, you have reinvented the French Republican Calendar[1], only you missed out on decimal time (1 day is 10 hours, 1 hour is 100 minutes, 1 minute is 100 seconds; 1 second is 0.864 conventional seconds)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

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Why are you all looking for base-10 hours, when it's rather the base-10 which is wrong??? Numbers should be switched to base-12. I mean we often need to divide 1kg by halves, quarters and thirds, and it should fall even.

We should do base 16, though, so it lines up with binary.

Not divisible by three, which comes up a lot. 12 is superior.

60 is probably best, tho.

Oh, I'm not surprised it's not an original idea, and I never claimed it was. Just the musings of a child fascinated by the seasons. :-)

edit: And I just realized I had a typo up there; I wrote "13 months" when I meant "12 months". D'oh.

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