putnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu) (12/31/85)
In article <1287@ihuxn.UUCP> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes: > *** *** >JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** > ****** ****** 16 Dec 85 [26 Frimaire An CXCIV] >ken perlow ***** ***** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >(312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** >..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** *** Do you have a program to convert dates to the french revolutionary calendar? If so, could you mail me a copy? (I tried to mail this, but think my mail got swallowed by a black hole). -- O -- jefu tell me all about -- UUCP: {rochester,edison}!steinmetz!putnam Anna Livia! I want to hear all.... -- ARPA: putnam@GE-CRD
alan@idec.stc.co.uk (Alan Spreadbury) (01/06/86)
The idea of having ten-day 'decades' to confuse the opposition (i.e. the religious establishment of the day) reminds me that Napoleon was said to have made his troops march on the right to confuse the enemy, who, of course, kept to the left (as civilised countries still do (-:)). Incidentally, I calculate 16 Dec 1985 as being 25 Frimaire 194; I wonder whether the one-day difference is due to non-leap century years. There have been two in our calendar (1800 and 1900), but only one in the revolutionary one (100) since 1792, hence I calculate the revolutionary year as currently starting on 23 Sept.
dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter) (01/07/86)
In article <565@idec.idec.stc.co.uk> alan@idec.stc.co.uk (Alan Spreadbury) writes: >Incidentally, I calculate 16 Dec 1985 as being 25 Frimaire 194; I wonder >whether the one-day difference is due to non-leap century years. There >have been two in our calendar (1800 and 1900), but only one in the >revolutionary one (100) since 1792, hence I calculate the revolutionary >year as currently starting on 23 Sept. In the French revolutionary calendar there is no simple algorithm to calculate leap years. Leap years are every 4 or 5 years depending on the actual start of autumn. The calendar had been precalculated for some 20 years or something like that. Hence a discussion whether 16 Dec 1985 is 25 Frimaire 194 or not is a bit futile. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland UUCP: {seismo,decvax,philabs,okstate,garfield}!mcvax!dik
gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) (01/09/86)
-- > Incidentally, I calculate 16 Dec 1985 as being 25 Frimaire 194; I wonder > whether the one-day difference is due to non-leap century years. There > have been two in our calendar (1800 and 1900), but only one in the > revolutionary one (100) since 1792, hence I calculate the revolutionary > year as currently starting on 23 Sept. It's not clear how leap centuries were to be handled, indeed if they were to be handled at all. That is, I could find no mention of this correxion in any histories of the French Revolution. It is reasonable to assume, however, that the Convention picked up the leap-century correxion since it also picked up leap years. But since the French Revolutionary Calendar used 4n+3 leap years, the non-leap centuries may have been similarly skewed. I shall recheck my algorithm, and since there seems to be some interest, post it to net.sources. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 09 Jan 86 [20 Nivose An CXCIV] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***