Yes, they also decided to change the time to decimal time.
The day was divided into 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes …
Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
They also had metric clocks.
But in any case, I’m more intrigued by the idea of the calendar with thirteen 28-day months. Too many religions are invested in the question of what day of the week it is to move away from a seven-day week.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alternatively 8 months of 5 weeks of 9 days with 5 days spread between them. 3 days off each week. Each month begins on a solstice, equinox, or halfway between them.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Eh fuck religions, they can keep their old antiquated calenders.
tommij@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
13! A prime number indivisible into anything. Ugh!
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen people object to a 13 month calendar based solely on the idea that you can’t divide the year into quarters. But it’s actually really easy to remember. A quarter is 13 weeks, or 3 months and 1 week. So Q1 ends a week after month three, Q2 ends 2 weeks after month six, Q3 ends 3 weeks after month nine, and q4 ends after month 13 aka the end of the year. And since the calendar doesn’t change, you don’t even need to remember it, just mark the quarter ends once and you’re done forever.
Just compare that to the unnecessary complexity of the Gregorian calendar and the effort it takes to remember basically anything that changes from year to year, or what day of the week any given date or holiday falls on, or even just which months have 30 days and which have 31.
elephantium@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
13! is definitely not a prime number, but it’s too large to be useful in this context (I know, I know, you didn’t actually MEAN 13-factorial, but I’ve studied enough maths that I couldn’t help it).
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Fine! Four months of thirteen weeks, and no more complaining!