How to Convert Time to Decimal Format Converting time to decimal format just involves basic division. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.

In 1793, the French smashed the old clock in favor of French Revolutionary Time: a 10-hour day, with 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute.

About face The Clockwork Conspiracy conjures up a world where decimal time becomes reality which is not as mad as it seems: this decimal clock was made by Pierre Daniel Destigny c. 1798–1805. (CC ...

That time France tried to make decimal time a thing Ain’t nobody working 9 to 5 in this mess.

Humans historically have worked well with decimal numbering systems. This is probably due to the fact most of us have ten fingers, which make counting in base ten easy. Yet humanity seems to dogged… ...

In 1793, the French switched to French Revolutionary Time, creating a decimal system of time. A day had 10 hours, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. The system was elegant, doing ...

Thus multiplying by 24 turns the decimal portion into hours and fractions of an hour (and incidentally causes Excel to stop representing it as a date/time value and represent it as a floating ...