I was going to say: time is based on degrees of a circle, and 10 doesn’t work great for it. I’m not a fan of non-metric length measurement, but time seems to be a rather sensical usage of it.
The important aspect of the metric system is consistency, not the actual base. The base is 10 because it makes math easier in almost all modern languages
Time is weird because its units are so necessarily arbitrary. We don't control (yet at least) the relationship between the rotation and revolution times of the planet, and both of those values are so very much essential
It's also interesting that you almost never will need to convert between time units. In normal life you will maybe convert minutes to hours and days or months (which aren't even of uniform length) into weeks and years. But scientists or engineers will always work in "metric" units of seconds and astronomers / archaeologists will always work in "metric" units of years
Compare this to mass and length/volume units, where a normal person will frequently need to traverse multiple orders of magnitude even just to bake a cake (grams to kilograms and milliliters to liters) and will have frequent experiences involving much higher orders (meters to kilometers every time they are following directions on their phones, or tons if they are loading a truck or buying a car)
Nothing about time is based on degrees of a circle, other than one specific way to visualise it - which many people don't use anymore and consider antiquated :)
Sundial; our notion of time is inextricably linked to the observed 180 degree arc path of the sun. The modern notion of time descends from that, and fails to stand on its own, despite silly attempts to define SI units via ad hoc correspondances.
