decimal time

English

Noun

decimal time (uncountable)

1. A system of timekeeping in which time is decimalized.
   • 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.