01-06-2009, 03:04 PM
hawaii wrote: Oh, does that mean that the French Republic start January 1st the day after Sept 22nd????? hmmmmm.
What do they do with the left over mths ie: Oct, Nov, Dec????
Relax, don't get your knickers in a knot, I am only teasing. hee, hee, hee.
No, it's just an ordinary, but more rational, calendar system, with 30-days months and 10-days week (meaning less week-end time in a year :o ).
They also tried to introduce a 10-hours-day, each hour being 100 minutes (and these 'hours' and 'minutes' not lasting the same time as the ones we know - let the mathematically inclined compute the conversion rate), but that was so much really, really impractical that it was abandoned in a few years' time only.
So, today it is Septidi 17 Nivose 217.
More details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar 8-)