Why isn’t time in metric units?

I like it.

I think they invented it before the metric system, maybe that explains it.

Measuring time is so weird.

What years did the people living in B.C. say they were living in......they didn't know it was 200 years B.C. - what year did they say it was?

Gurl there was a Roman calendar you know

not to mention Chinese, Jewish, Mayan, etc.

The Babylonians liked 60 (and 240) because they had so many factors (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc), but there was an attempt to have metric (decimalized) time after the French Revolution and some clock were made, but it didn't work out

Time works fine the way it is, well, there's that leap year thing that's kind of weird, but otherwise, it works, don't fuck with it

Planets and the sun, right?

Remember that crazy-ass calendar the French invented after the Revolution? With Brumaire, and Hilaire and Contraire and all those weird months?

We tried. It was too hard for us.

Well, there are 12 months, and apparently 12 full moons in one year. Maybe that's where the 12 hours comes from. 60 seconds? Maybe because six is a factor of 12.

But, you're right, OP. It kind of seems arbitrary.