metricstime
Metricstime is a term used to describe a proposed timekeeping and calendrical framework that uses decimalized units for measuring time in an effort to align daily time with metric arithmetic and SI units. It is not in general use and there is no official implementation.
Several variants exist. A common conception divides a day into ten hours, each hour into one hundred
Origins of the idea date to historical experiments with decimal time such as the French Revolutionary Time,
Supporters argue that metricstime would simplify arithmetic, improve consistency with SI units, and ease computer processing
Today metricstime remains a scholarly and hobbyist topic rather than a practical alternative. It appears in
See also: decimal time, French Revolutionary Time, timekeeping, SI units.