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The meter represents the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. It was originally defined as a tiny fraction of distance along the earth’s equator. It’s so far removed from anything normal people do, it may as well have been invented by aliens.
The metric system has its origins in the French Revolution, as a way to stick it to the Ancien Régime. It didn’t go international until 1875, when a group of diplomats got together in Paris (which, historically, is a pretty good indicator that a bad decision is on the way) and signed the Treaty of the Meter. That treaty established the BIPM, an intergovernmental organization with a French name, to oversee a new, worldwide measurement system.
Metric...

The metric system is a international decimalised system of measurement, first adopted by France in 1791, that is the common system of measuring units used by most of the world. It exists in several variations, with different choices of fundamental units, though the choice of base units does not affect its day-to-day use.

Over the last two centuries, different variants have been considered the metric system. Since the 1960s the International System of Units ("Système International d'Unités" in French, hence "SI") has been the internationally recognized standard metric system. Metric units are universally used in scientific work, and widely used around the world for personal and commercial purposes. A standard set of prefixes in powers of ten may be used to derive larger and smaller units from the base units.


...Horology

From Greek: ὥρα, "hour, time" and Greek: λόγος,logos, "study, speech";

lit. “the study of time” Horology is the art or science of measuring time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, clepsydras, timers, time recorders and marine chronometers are all examples of instruments used to measure time.

People interested in horology are called horologists. That term is used both by people who deal professionally with timekeeping apparatus (watchmakers, clockmakers), as well as aficionados and scholars of horology. Horology and horologists have numerous organizations, both professional associations and more scholarly societies.

Decimal & Metric Time Websites

  • 28 Hour Day - A New Clock for a New Age
  • A Guide to Metric Time
  • Aristean Decimal Time
  • Bill Collins: "Why Metric Time?"
  • Calendar Reform
  • Calendar Reform and Metric Time proposals by Gavin Gregor Young
  • Calendar Reform/Decimal Time/Metrication Group
  • Calendars Through The Ages
  • Decimal Time
  • Decimal Time Units
  • Desperate Measurements
  • Horloge Décimale
  • Illinois Dept of Physics - Metric Time
  • Jon Knoll's Metric Digital Clock
  • Metric Clock by Tracewave
  • Metric Time on Wikipedia
  • New Earth Time
  • Richard Carrigan on Decimal Time
  • Rod Metric Time
  • Seth Golub's Chrons
  • Springfrog's Time Converter
  • STime
  • Swatch Internet Time
  • Systeme International - Unit of Time (second)
  • Telling Time on Mars
  • Time Disvible By Ten
  • What DIME Is It?
  • World Time Zones - An introduction To Decimal Time
  • WRLD time

The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on October 24, 1793 and abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871. The French also established a new clock, in which the day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day.

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