Time for some coding...

Time to start putting things together. Counting C10 time is a really simple thing.

Here is the code that does the whole job of counting time and date:

// C10 date/time structure
struct {
  unsigned char  tick;     // 0..99
  unsigned char centival;  // 0..99
  unsigned char interval;  // 0..99
  unsigned char day;       // 0..9
  unsigned char decade;    // 0..36
  unsigned int year;
} dt;


// must be executed at every exact 0.0864s (one tick)
void clockC10(void) {
  if (++dt.tick>99) {
    dt.tick=0;
    if (++dt.centival>99) {
      dt.centival=0;
      if (++dt.interval>99) {
        dt.interval=0;
        if (++dt.day>9) {
          unsigned char yl=36;    // year length
          // the year will have 37 decades if odd
          // number or multiple by 40
          if ((dt.year&1) || (dt.year%40)==0) yl++;
          dt.day=0;                   
          if (++dt.decade>=yl) {
            dt.decade=0;
            dt.year++;
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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Kn/vD wrote 04/22/2016 at 19:20

'tenary' is an interesting suggestion. Trying in on my tongue now and it sounds fine. A possible candidate. I will update the project description to include it in the list of suggestions

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K.C. Lee wrote 04/22/2016 at 15:45

Just use the proper prefix from metric system as your are doing metric time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deca-

e.g. Deci_Year for 1/10 of a year, Deca_Day for 10 days etc.

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Kn/vD wrote 04/22/2016 at 19:18

'decaday' is a bit tricky for pronunciation, I think...

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K.C. Lee wrote 04/22/2016 at 20:17

So are the IUPAC organic compounds naming. If you want a non-arbitrary and accurate description of it, following the standard is the way to go. Everyone else could call it metric week or whatever.

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Kn/vD wrote 04/23/2016 at 07:05

That is undeniably correct. I will add this suggestion to the project description.

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danjovic wrote 04/21/2016 at 23:26

Neat! Isn't there another term for 'decade', as it suggests 10 years instead 1/10th of an year?

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Kn/vD wrote 04/22/2016 at 06:11

'decade' is actually 10 days in C10. I simply wasn't able to come up with another word for it. It is not unambiguous as the others as it might also refer to (as you already said) 10 years, but what else could be called a period of 10 days?

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danjovic wrote 04/22/2016 at 14:01

I've been thiking about a good word for that. What do you think of 'tenary'?.

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Accurate setting of a C10 clock from within our current reality

Where is the zero?

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