This is, as far as I can tell, telling time in decimal.

The metric (si) unit of time is the second. To "tell time in metric" one would use si prefixes, as is done in e.g. Vernor Vinges A Deepness in the Sky.

One hectosecond would be approximately one minute, a kilosecond ~15 minutes, 100 kiloseconds ~1day, 1 megasecond ~2 weeks, 31.54 megaseconds in a year, ...

Fun fact: decimal time was the official timekeeping system of France for about 6 months during the revolution, but was abolished because it never caught on. However, there are still some decimal watches and clocks in existence from that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

Here's a little blog post from a while back that I wrote about a software bug, time zones, and alternate time systems. It's got a list of HN mention links of decimal time and .beat among other things.

http://cookrn.tumblr.com/post/74190761055/cant-we-all-just-g...

Interesting how similar the number of "seconds" is: 100'000 seconds in metric versus 86'400.

Why, oh why, Earth, must you rotate 365.242 times per year? Why couldn't it be 100 or 1000?

There's a cool iOS app called TI:ME which has decimal, octal, hexadecimal, swatch, and the trigonometry clock.

Timw should be measured in base-12