why is the day divided into 24 hours, and we tell that time in 2 increments of 12? have there been other time-telling systems and history, and if so why didn’t they catch on?
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The French tried it after the Revolution, along with revising the calendar. [Here’s the result](http://svalbard.watch/pages/about_decimal_time.html). Decimal time- lasted about a year and a half before they went back to the old way.
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