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How a 5,000-Year-Old Counting Trick Still Controls Every Clock on Earth
In October 1793, revolutionary France decided to fix something most people had never questioned. A new government decree sliced every day into 10 hours, each made up of 100 minutes, each minute holding 100 seconds. Town halls mounted freshly built decimal clocks. Officials recorded business under the new system. For a brief window, France lived…