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The ''ke'' divided a Day into 100 equal intervals thus forming a true Centi day. This was the ideal time interval, a short Quarter of an Hour that the French Revolution aries were unaware of and missed in the 18th Century , when they tried to introduce Metric Time . They failed because people did not feel acquainted and at ease with the new unnecessary decimal Hour s and minutes. With a familiar short “quarter”, subdivisions like hours and minutes would have been abolished and this part of their Calendar Reform most likely successfully passed. The Jesuit missionaries had current Western time introduced into China during the preceding century, at which time the day was unfortunately redefined as having 96 ''ke''. (The ''ke'' had even before been compatible with the double hours, ''shi'', each ''ke'' being subdivided into fractions of 60 ''fen''.) SEE ALSO REFERENCE
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