> Also, for those interested, look up Swatch time invented in late 90s and touted as more logical replacement of the mess that we have. Swatch Time is just a

> Also, for those interested, look up Swatch time invented in late 90s and touted as more logical replacement of the mess that we have. Swatch Time is just a rebranding of French Revolutionary decimal time displaying the hour number next to the minute. It was introduced a bit before the metric system in 1793 but was made optional in 1795 and finally dropped in 1806. Swatch has always been extremely good at marketing but I don’t like crediting a corporation for something they didn’t invent.