[lovemenot]

Why make a good point and follow it with a bad joke which: both has a class of victim and does not work as a joke?

Nobody has ever heard of "the French" undertaking such a project. And if it had ever happened, it would most surely have been a particular Academy or the like. Not the 65M people under your careless swipe.

[deathanatos]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#France

[misnome]

Along with most of the metric system, which they did somehow manage to persuade the rest of the world to use.

[Grimburger]

I'm actually one of those weird folks who likes decimal time and maybe one day we'll get there given that every other metric system was adopted by engineers worldwide except for time.

Wasn't meant as some slight against the French, completely the opposite hey, honestly think they had the right idea, the rest of the world got it wrong...and... that's very much a minority opinion these days. Some things are just ingrained into everyone I guess.

[pbronez]

French Revolution came up with some wild shit and some truly excellent ideas. That’s a season of change for ya… high variance.