> On May 6, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Warren Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ideas for fixing this aren’t new.
The French had a supremely utopian "Republican Calendar" that lasted from 1793
to 1805 ("and for 18 days by the Paris Commune
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune> in 1871" … such pathos in that
little aside.)
> There were twelve months, each divided into three ten-day weeks called
> décades. The tenth day, décadi, replaced Sunday as the day of rest and
> festivity. The five or six extra days needed to approximate the solar or
> tropical year were placed after the months at the end of each year and called
> complementary days. … Each day in the Republican Calendar was divided into
> ten hours, each hour into 100 decimal minutes, and each decimal minute into
> 100 decimal seconds."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar]
Face it, if they couldn't ram through a pointy-headed decimalized regularized
calendar during the effin' *French Enlightenment*, it's certainly not going to
work in the current dark ages.
Also relevant to this entire thread, since apparently a lot of people aren't
aware of this stuff:
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
<https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time>
(really a must-read for anyone dealing with dates and times)
You Advocate An Approach To Calendar Reform; Your Idea Will Not Work; Here Is
Why <https://qntm.org/calendar> (brutal takedown)
—Jens
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