Marcus wrote in USMA 23731:
I suggest that "metric time" was rejected because existing clocks around the world showed 12-60-60. The Frecnh revolutionaries were unable to persuade the world to scrap its clocks. The 10-month calendar survived longer because it did not affect existing hardware.
Religious 'renouncing' apart, the fact of the matter is that calendar reform brought the demise of metric time since these were intrinsically related or part of the package, so to speak.
Had metric time been *dissociated* from the calendar proposal and the stupid 60-60-24 would be history by now!!!
Marcus
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