The metric clock is impossible and it would indeed create mayhem with SI; let's get rid of AM/PM time instead, even that is a laborious uphill battle against a lot of resistance. The metric clock was attempted during the French Revolution but then abandoned as it was totally impractical. The same happened with the decimal Revolutionary Calendar.
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