The USPS uses decimal time for it's time keeping system. It serves almost no functional advantage.

http://www.nalc3825.com/ETC_clockring_entries.pdf

Decimal minutes instead of seconds, to be precise.

The way it should be.

So imagine we get to Mars, establish a colony.

Mars has a day which is 24h 36m.

We could have all of our Martian colonists adhere to an Earth day of 24 hours, with sunrise and sunset drifting around the clock, or we could have them observe an extra 25th hour of the day that lasts 36 minutes.

Or, we could define the Martian day as 24 Martian hours of 60 Martian minutes of 61.5 seconds, with seconds the invariant interchange time between planets.

In turn, seconds stop being a unit of human timekeeping, and everyone just uses decimal minutes as the final subdivision.

Oh sweet summer child...we humans are tethered to Gaia.

Speak for yourself

Slightly unnerving seeing seconds pass by 15.74% faster.

Feels like living in the future. Progress marches on faster than ever.

Honestly a brilliant marketing move by the French revolutionaries, just a few hundred years too early.

If they were truly revolutionary they would have gone for base 12 or 60 instead of 10

Uncanny valley. Never seen a clock do it before.

Never played most of the super mario games, then? Or is that timer too abstracted?

I think platform games already warp the sense of time a little. You get into the rhythm of the game. Or, say, a musical beat.

My thoughts too.

Ahah nice one, thanks for sharing !