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The French republican calendar (link) had many fascinating features:
-Metric date and time
-New seasons and month names
-Each day had its name
-The years were different
et cetera
It was abolished by Napoleon I due to many issues, for example the downtrodden workers had fewer days off,
on average, because a 10 day 'week' has only 10% days off rather than 14.2% in a 7-day week, and worship days fell on differing weekdays.
I personally like it however, so I want an app to tell me what day and time it is. I got Claude to make an extension for my browser which pops the information up in a window.
For example, at the time of writing, it's
An CCXXXIV (Year 234 of the republic)
Quintidi (Fifth day of the week) — Écrevisse (Crayfish day)
25 Fructidor (25th of the 'month of fruit')
Décade III (3rd week of the month)
06:94:97 sixth hour, 94th minute, 97th second Paris time
Vendredi 11 septembre 2026 (Colourless Gregorian Calendar)
I was also given instructions for making a downloadable thing in Github but got bored so haven't done it yet.
Future versions could include the official illustrations of the ladies which adorned each month.
French republican calendar
https://en.wikipedi...Republican_calendar
[bhumphrys, Sep 11 2026]
Not so weird
https://weirdholidays.com/
Supposedly weird holidays. I've heard weirder. [minoradjustments, Sep 11 2026]
International Fixed Calendar
https://en.wikipedi...onal_Fixed_Calendar
13 months of 4 weeks. Extra month 'Sol' for Summer solstice. [Richard K, Sep 11 2026]
BabelCal
[pocmloc, Sep 14 2026]
Sans Culottes ('pantyless') uniform. They actually in fact wear trousers, as you will see.
https://fr.wikipedi...pique_-_Lesueur.jpg
This costume is a sign of protest, worn by lawyers, traders, employees, craftsmen, bourgeois, then by all who presented themselves as "Patriots". [bhumphrys, Sep 18 2026]
The weapon in [bhumphrys]' link
https://i.pinimg.co...6dee556c31a3779.jpg
is named after the Lowland Scots Halpert family. [pertinax, Sep 18 2026]
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I'm crazy about how the French can complicate anything. Whether it works in practice is secondary to whether it is correct in theory. |
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While you're at it go for the epitome of French thought, Metric Time. What happens on Worker's Day in the Calendrier Républicain after getting screwed out of weekends? Think the unions will go for that? |
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Please tell me we will not lose all our current most hilarious day holidays? Can we keep the weirdest? Whoops, Crayfish Day qualifies as a keeper. |
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//the French can complicate anything. Whether it works in practice is secondary to whether it is correct in theory.// |
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It's a sweeping generalisation, and difficult to argue with. Maybe, let's be generous, the aim is to simplify, but if it's done without in-depth understanding or debate with end users it can tend to end up in a bit of a morass? is that a purely French tendency, though? |
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And note, the lovely poetic calendrier républicain is pretty much modelled on the ancient Egyptian calendar system, which persists as the Coptic calendar. I have a widget for that too and it's currently AM MDCCXLIII (1743)
Akhet — 'Inundation' — when the Nile flood historically covered the land, 1st of Thout, Named for Thoth, god of wisdom, writing and the moon: interesting for a calendar used by a Christian sect.
The year of the ancient Egyptian calendar would reset to 1 each time a new Pharaoh came to the throne. We don't have a Pharaoh so the Coptic years are counted from 284 AD, the year Diocletian became Roman Emperor. AM stands for 'year of the martyrs', and Diocletian organised mass Christian slaughter. |
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[While you're at it go for the epitome of French thought, Metric Time] |
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Didn't you notice the time stated by the widget? 06:94:97 sixth hour, 94th minute, 97th second. Think about it! |
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Lovely names for the months. Date of the New Year determined by the vernal equinox as determined by astronomical observation, so could not necessarily be determined for the years ahead. |
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See also the International Fixed Calendar (link) |
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The calendar works. The Metric Time works. It's not that the 35,000 communes (administrative units with their own governance in some areas) don't function as a system. They do. Counter-productively. The fact that the labor laws are tedious, obstructive, and in some cases do exactly the opposite of what is intended, is not as important as the intellectually robust system that underpins its unworkability. The fatal logical completeness and perfection of the solutions impede any evolution or pragmatic change. |
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If elegance were they only metric, Bravo! Otherwise it's still September 12th for me. |
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Great minds, [Poc]! Happy Maïs (Maize) day to you. |
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P.s. I got a slightly queasy feeling when I first read it as 'BabeCal' |
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Hey everybody, my app just told me that today is Genius Day. |
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It's one of the five complementary days after the end of Fructidor, originally known as 'Sans culottes' days, named after the revolutionary protesters who advocated direct democracy without the deputies. The deputies at the time called themselves anti-democrats because "Democracy would be anarchy". |
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Sans Culottes means 'No trousers'- they had a colourful uniform (link) |
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If your trousers go all the way to your ankles, then they are nottes culottes. |
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