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Because whole point of metric is to use powers of ten.
The SI unit for time is the second. It just happens to be the same length as the imperial second. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years are not SI units.
12, 24, and 60 are highly composite numbers and easily divisible by more numbers than 10. Also, if you are doing that, go ahead and redefine degrees in a circle and all that jazz too. Go ahead.
There has been a "metric" measurement of angles for a long time. The radian. It's pi based instead of 10 based, but it makes way more sense than degrees.
In the days of doing math by hand, that might have mattered.
Let me introduce you to this little thing called a calculator.