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.
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The Common Era, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, was abolished and replaced with l'ère républicaine, the Republican Era, signifying the "age of reason" overcoming superstition, as part of the campaign of dechristianisation.
So cool.
Shame they then gave up reason and gave power to a self proclaimed emperor who went on murderous rampage across Europe.
I'll never understand how the beautiful Paris Commune led next to fucking Napoleon
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12 months of 30 days
January 31
You can only pick one of these.
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As I recall, a major reason it didn't take off was very simple: the new "Sunday" only came every 10 days instead of 7!
The best bit about it was definitely the evocative month names.
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Holy crap this is what I wanted. at least four of the intercalary days should be the solstice and equinoxes. and I wanted the weeks to be 5 weeks of 6 days per month with every month starting and ending on the same day. I would be tempted for the fifth and sixth intercalary to be after the winder solstice and call the fifth new years and the sixth one leap day or something. I figure thats sorta the main holiday time anyway.
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I think it would be fair to highlight that this was revolutionary France' brainchild. It is a republic today as well but they've gone back and forth on that one a bit in the last two centuries.
10 day week...screw that! How about Saturday, Sunday, Monday... And it repeats! Saturday, Sunday, Monday! You work 8 hours on Monday. You rest Saturday and Sunday.
School year starts around September so that's kind of nice but what did it in, or so I have heard, was the 10 day workweek, just too long.
I wouldn't mind a 10 day week if it meant work 6 and then get a 4 day weekend.
But who am I kidding our corporate overlords would expect at least 8 on and 2 off
I would like this calender but we would need to adjust it so that new years falls on the winter solstice.
Plus the 5 leap days would need to be a global celebration / holiday period, and the 6th day every 4 years a massive holiday.
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