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[Nivim]

I would like the time system to be changed. 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours is awkward.

10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute with new seconds @ .864 the current second, would be much easier to work with.

Actually, the reason for that time system wasn't entirely illogical; 60 can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, whereas 100 only has 2, 4, and 5 of that, and 10 only has 2 and 5! Think about yer prime factors before setting a new system! (And 24 is just a convenient multiple of 6.)

[scriver]

Yes, but we want deciseconds and milliminutes!

[ed boy]

You're too attatched to base ten. Make the switch to binary. If you do that, you can have the equivalent of deciseconds and milliminutes.

[Starver]

(And 24 is just a convenient multiple of 6.)

In at least one ancient civilisation, it was the number 12 that was more important.  12 periods of daylight and/or 12 periods of night (in some part according to whether it was workers in the various practical or mystical industries who needed to subdivide a particular demi-day), splittable into halves, thirds or quarters.  Albeit not necessarily equal divisions (depending on measurement method), and those divisions longer or shorter as the seasons progressed.  Obviously sixths (and eighths, and twelfths) are also possible with the full solar day divided, but that's just maths for yer...