decimal time

English

Noun

decimal time (uncountable)

  1. A system of timekeeping in which time is decimalized. For example, a day is divided into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes, and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds.
    • 2010, Jeremy Keith, HTML 5 For Web Designers, page 9:
      The French Revolution was an era of extreme political and social change. Revolutionary fervor was applied to time itself. For a brief period, the French Republic introduced a decimal time system, with each day divided into ten hours and each hour divided into one hundred minutes. It was thoroughly logical and clearly superior to the sexagesimal system.
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