Some philosophers of the French Enlightenment considered this to be a good idea. The famous Encyclopédie had an article by Jean le Rond d'Alembert, for example, suggesting that a decimal base would "result in more convenient calculations". During the French Revolution, these ideas were momentarily realized by a decree of the National Convention in 1793. As late as 1897, the French still attempted doing so with a Commission de décimalisation du temps. It proposed retaining a 24-hour day but having 100 decimal minutes divided into 100 decimal seconds, to no avail.