The French made some attempts at making metric time a thing, but no one really liked it.

Do a barrel roll!

One of them did, though! Irene Joliot-Curie got the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Her father in law lived with them after his wife died shortly after her first daughter was born. He acted as babysitter when Marie was working. They also hired a servant to take care of most housework and cooking.