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REVOLUTIONARY FERVOR CHECK, sans-culotte! For your sake, it should be FRACTIONAL
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Honestly the current system of time is pretty decent. Base 10 isn't inherently superior for everything.
However.
The calendar... Awful. Messy. Arbitrary. I feel like we missed the boat when the world didn't immediately adopt the International Fixed Calendar.
That (13x28+1) would be so much nicer. I'm also a fan of 12x30+5, which keeps the year divisible into quarters and gives an even better 5 day new year's bonus. It also loses the exactly 4 week months, but eh.. Keeps things interesting. Also avoids every month having a Friday the 13th.
Also solstices and equinoxes should be on the 1st of months
My gut says that would introduce a whole lot of inconsistency? It's to do with the tilt of the axis, not the daily rotation. I don't think those line up neatly enough.
Apparently they used this inside Kodak until like 1983. I have to imagine some lone hold-out at the end, everyone waiting on them to retire or die so they can all finally do things worse and all I can think is: that'll be be me someday.
That sounds both nice and an absolute hassle to try and retrofit all our timekeeping stuff to deal with.