Octal Clock

The Octal Clock does away with the cumbersome 12-based imperial system of time keeping, where you can't count using only your fingers and everything is weird and awkward. By switching to octal time, we get all the benefits of a metric-style system, and keep the benefit of being able to easily half and quarter time measurements.

The basics of the system are as follows:

1000 octal microseconds per millisecond.

1000 octal milliseconds per second.

100 octal seconds per minute.

100 octal minutes per hour.

10 octal hours per scisma.

3 scismas per day.

A "scisma" is much like AM/PM, except there are three of them: Morning (Mane Scisma/MS), Day (Dies Scisma/DS), Evening (Vesperum Scisma/VS). For the purposes of simplification Mane Scisma starts at 12:00 AM imperial time.

Why 3 scismas?

In the slightly modified words of Robert Owen, "[1 Scisma]'s labour, [1 Scisma]'s recreation, [1 Scisma]'s rest".

... Also, because 30 octal is 24 decimal, so all the hours line up and our math is pretty and we don't need to change the calendar.

This app was written as part of a Flutter Institute tutorial series: https://flutter.institute/tag/octal-clock/