Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Time needs some sanity!

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Time-needs-some-sanity-tp7584207p7584285.html

Ray -

Now that I'm back at my desk, I refer you to the French Republican Calendar - here's an article on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

Nicely found...  when offered in the abstract it didn't appeal to me, but when presented as a real, specific example,  which (some) people adopted in real life if only for less than a decade, it is easier to take seriously. 

TL;DR - 100 seconds = 1 minute, 100 minutes = 1 hour, 10 hours = 1 day, 10 days = a week (French décade), 3 weeks in a month, and twelve months in a year.  That adds up to 360 so the five or six days to approximate the solar year were added at the end of the year.  Every fourth year was when six days were added.  The years started with the autumnal equinox (roughly 23 September).  The months were given new names base on nature.

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