Edited sentence: At the same time the metric system sought to impose "Pure Reason" on weights and measures, the French revolutionary calendar was also devised; this calendar was designed as an explicit attack on the Christian year, replacing the week with decades of ten days, thereby removing the sabbath or the Lord's Day as a regular part of the calendar.Decimal time died of neglect well before that, while other measurements (gram, litre, metre) persisted.In addition to the new calendar, these attempted reforms also included metric time, dividing the day into 10 "hours" with 100 "minutes".It has been argued that the metric system suffers from monomaniacal decimalism, i.Napoleon Bonaparte abolished the metric calendar to meet the objections of the Roman Catholic Church in 1806.The metric system was designed as part and parcel of the revolution's official ideology of "Pure Reason".The metric system was invented by French scientists, and was proposed for widespread non-scientific use as a result of the French Revolution of 1789.a "tunnel visioned" insistence on ten as the sole multiplier or divisor among permitted units, and thereby sacrifices convenience and human scale for the sake of mathematics