In his book The French Revolution, the XIXth century writer Thomas Carlyle proposes these translations for the month names: Vendémiaire -> Vintagearious Brumaire -> Fogarious Frimaire -> Frostarious Nivôse -> Snowous Pluviôse -> Rainous Ventôse -> Windous Germinal -> Buddal Floréal -> Floweral Prairial -> Meadowal Messidor -> Reapidor Thermidor -> Heatidor Fructidor -> FruitidorĮach month has a duration of 30 days. But it was not practical, so Romme proposed a leap year rule similar to the Gregorian calendar rule. It was therefore in tune with the republic's motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". First, the republic had been established on 22 September 1792, which happened to be the equinox, and second, the equinox was the symbol of equality, the day and the night lasting exactly 12 hours each. In addition, all months have exactly 3 décades, no more, no less.Īt first, the year was beginning on the equinox of autumn, for two reasons. Therefore, the week disappeared, replaced by the décade. An attempt to apply the decimal rule (the basis of the metric system) to the calendar. The Revolutionary calendar was in use in France from 24 November 1793 (4 Frimaire II) to 31 December 1805 (10 Nivôse XIV). It means a ten- day period.įor your information, the French word for a ten-year period is décennie. This French word is not the translation of the English word "decade" (ten-year period). The documentation uses the word décade (the first "e" having an acute accent).
This module implements most methods of DateTime see the DateTime(3) manpage for all methods. $dtrev = DateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary->from_object( object => $dtgreg ) DESCRIPTIONĭateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary implements the French Revolutionary Calendar. $dtgreg = DateTime->from_object( object => $dt ) # convert from French Revolutionary to Gregorian. $dt = DateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary->new( year => 8, # Use the date "18 Brumaire VIII" (Brumaire being the second month) Indeed, Wikipedia will tell you the current day and year using the system, although you'll want to read up on the exquisite problems related to leap years (also helpfully detailed on Wikipedia).įor a bit more on decimal time (including several modern variants), check out our article Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day.DateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary - Dates in the French Revolutionary Calendar SYNOPSIS use DateTime::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary Of course, all this calendar-nerd stuff leads to the fact that you could still choose to use the French Republican Calendar. It took him more than a year to roll back the revolutionary calendar.) In any case, Janurolled around using the Gregorian calendar and the rest is history. (Incidentally, his coronation occurred on 11 Frimaire, Year XIII of the French Republican Calendar-also known as 2 December, 1804. This was due, of course, to the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte as Emperor. On December 31, 1805, the French government chucked the system-in the year XIV, by Republican reckoning. It began in late 1793 and ran all the way through the end of 1805 (again in the Gregorian reckoning). The French Republican Calendar lasted far longer.
Decimal clocks and decimal/standard hybrid clocks continued to be used for years, but for practicality, France returned to the same system of time as its neighbors. By Ap(in the Gregorian calendar), the time system became optional. This was a bit inelegant (days and years being hard to divide cleanly by 10), but at least it was less confusing than trying to sort out what time "noon" was (it was 5 o'clock).įrench Revolutionary Time only lasted 17 months. The leftover days needed to add up to 365 or 366 for the year were tacked onto the end of the year as holidays.
Months were divided into three 10-day weeks, and there were 12 months. But it also brought huge headaches.įrench Revolutionary Time came alongside the French Republican Calendar, a further attempt to rationalize time. The system was elegant, doing away with the complex math required for time calculations under a 24 hour/60 minute/60 second system. A day had 10 hours, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. In 1793, the French switched to French Revolutionary Time, creating a decimal system of time.
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