That wasn’t Napoleon but the French revolution. They implemented new decimal timekeeping, new decimal calendar and all the jazz - partly because they were fans of metric, partly because they absolutely wanted to get rid of all the old (=feudal and/or religious) things.
Soviets did try this too with 5-days weeks in the 20s but it was so frustrating and unmemorable you can hardly find many sources about it, like it didn’t happened. Yet, one of the similar ideas coming from the same place – a 5-year plan – was kept in action for decades.
That wasn’t Napoleon but the French revolution. They implemented new decimal timekeeping, new decimal calendar and all the jazz - partly because they were fans of metric, partly because they absolutely wanted to get rid of all the old (=feudal and/or religious) things.
Soviets did try this too with 5-days weeks in the 20s but it was so frustrating and unmemorable you can hardly find many sources about it, like it didn’t happened. Yet, one of the similar ideas coming from the same place – a 5-year plan – was kept in action for decades.