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IncompetentFrog t1_irk4yxn wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL French used 10h day instead of 24h between 1793 - 1805 during era called "decimalisation" by NightKnight_CZ

24 hours is how long it takes for the earth to spin 1 time, it is also the amount of time our biological clocks are attuned to. It makes plenty of sense.

For example a 10 hour clock would never be consistent with daytime

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Smooman21 t1_irk5wgj wrote

Oh my sweet summer child... They're 10 units of time, not hours as you normally think. Each unit is longer than an hour and it fills the entire day/night cycle

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MentallyMusing t1_irkf1cn wrote

These are reasonings handed out after the fact to instill compliance and understanding to be used in defense of keeping the 24hour world clock in place as a standard after Railroad Corporations instituted the practice so their employees and shipments were able to predictably be in the expected place and negotiations over who could use what rail line when could be legally enforceable and eventually recieve Exclusive Rights of Use. It's an interesting bit of contractual warfare and new technology being used to create systematic standards meant by their Creators to last am eternity with predictable effects on society

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