Re:Metric Time
by kybernetikos on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:26PM
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If only they'd had the sense to zero index their days instead of 1 indexing them!
I am curious which leap day system you use for the French Republican calendar. Most popular versions of the calendar I see floating around just use the Gregorian leap year system, which I don't like because it yields the wrong results in the year the calendar was in use. Yet, I don't see mental math as a viable option when using the original date-of-equinox method used during the revolution.
Re:Metric Time
by ChilledTonic on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:55PM
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It's not an easy thing; frankly, if I have to back convert to prior times when the Calendar was still in use, you have to just swallow the pill
However, if using the calendar in day to day life, the Revised System is much easier.
To quote Wikipedia:
leap years being every year divisible by 4, except years divisible by 100 and not by 400. Years divisible by 4000 would also be ordinary years. This calendar also has the benefit that every year in the third century of the Republican Era (1992–2091) begins on 22 September.
For more on the philosophy of this, I highly recommend Jenny Odell's Book, Saving Time. Note that she doesn't talk about the revolutionary calendar in it (to my memory) but touches on a lot of the realities of time and clocks themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar