This allowed for time to be written as we would, 2:34 for 2 hours and 34 minutes, but also as the decimal numbers 2.34 or even 234. For timestamping purposes we’d write 2016-12-08.234.

He’s entered his clock into our 1 kB Challenge. DC-10 builds upon C10, the decimal time display system created by [KnivD] on Hackaday.io. Here’s how it works: ...

There’s certainly something to this – instead of .333…, 1/3 would be .4 in base-12, and 1/4 gets shortened from .25 to .3. 1/5 has to become the repeating decimal .24972497…, and 1/7 is ...