> On May 6, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> 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 _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users