Therefore, the week disappeared, replaced by the décade. An attempt to apply the decimal rule (the basis of the metric system) to the calendar. DescriptionThe 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.For your information, the French word for a ten-year period is décennie.But it was not practical, so Romme proposed a leap year rule similar to the Gregorian calendar rule.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 -> FruitidorEach month has a duration of 30 days. 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.
METHODSSince the week has been replaced by the décade, the corresponding method names still are decade_number, day_of_decade, etc. And they are irrelevant for this French Revolutionary calendar module. But this reform was put on hold after two years or so and it never reappeared.Other reforms to decimalize the time has been proposed during the last part of the XIXth Century, but these reforms were not applied too. For programming purposes, they are considered as a 13th month (much shorter than the 12 others).There was also an attempt to decimalize the day's subunits, with 1 day = 10 hours, 1 hour = 100 minutes and 1 minute = 100 seconds. These days are called Sans-Culottides. The ABT accessors are provided to be historically correct, since the decimal time reform was never put in force. The strftime and iso8601 methods use only decimal time. The accessors for ABT are abt_hour, abt_minute, abt_second and abt_hms, the accessors for decimal time are hour, minute, second and hms. This timestamp is the number of seconds since the computer epoch, not the calendar epoch.Creates a date object that corresponds to the precise instant the method is called.Creates a date object by converting another object from the DateTime suite. No other values are possible, even territory variants such as fr_BE or en_US.Creates a date object from a timestamp value. These parameters cannot be specified with the decimal time parameters (see above).Only the values fr (French), en (English), es (Spanish) and it (Italian) are allowed. The hour is in the 0.23 range, both other parameters are in the 0.59 range. These parameters cannot be specified with the sexagesimal time parameters abt_ xxx (see below).Sexagesimal hour number, sexagesimal minute number and sexagesimal second number. The hour is in the 0.9 range, both other parameters are in the 0.99 range. %m or %f in strftime.Returns the month in the 0.11 range. If the date is an additional day at the end of the year, returns 13, which is not really a month number. This method accepts any parameter allowed by the new() method.This method performs parameters validation just as is done in the new() method.Returns the month in the 1.12 range. If the month parameter is 13 for the additional days, the day is set to the end of the year, either the 5th or the 6th additional day.Creates a replica of the original date object.This method can be used to change the local components of a date time, or its locale. %d or %e in strftime.Day_of_decade, dod, day_of_week, dow, wdayReturns the day of the décade, from 1.10. %b or %h in strftime.Returns the day of the month, from 1.30. For the additional days at the end of the year, returns "S-C", because these additional days were also known as the Sans-culottides. %B in strftime.Note: The English translations for the month names come from Thomas Carlyle's book.Returns a 3-letter abbreviation of the month name. For the additional days at the end of the year, returns "jour complémentaire", the translation of "additional day". No other language is supported yet. Onenote for mac cant type%j in strftime.Feast, feast_short, feast_long, feast_capsReturns the plant, animal, mineral or tool associated with the day. %a in strftime.Returns the day of the year. %A in strftime.Returns the abbreviated name of the current day of the décade. %u in strftime, but not %w (because the value differs on décadi).Returns the name of the current day of the décade. Example: for 11 Vendémiaire, we have: feast, feast_short pomme de terreNote: the English translation for the feasts comes mainly from Alan Taylor's website "Preserving the French Republican Calendar".Returns the date in the corresponding composite format. Prefix, or the caps format, with the first letter of the prefix and feast capitalized. If requested, you can ask for the long format, with a jour de. %H, %M and %S in strftime.Returns a composite string with the three time elements. This is also sometimes known as the Anglo-Babylonian Time.Return the corresponding time elements, using a decimal scale, with 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. %F in strftime.Abt_hour, abt_minute, abt_min, abt_second, abt_secReturn the corresponding time elements, using a sexagesimal scale. %U, %V or %W in strftime.Returns a 2-element list, with the year number and the décade number. An optional parameter allows you to choose the separator ( : by default).Returns the date and time is a format similar to what ISO-8601 has specified for the Gregorian calendar.Returns a true value if the year is a leap year, false else.Returns the décade number. An optional parameter allows you to choose the separator ( : by default).Returns a composite string with the three time elements. This exists primarily to allow other calendar modules to create objects based on the values provided by this object. Anyhow, this is done for compatibility with DateTime's week method.Returns the current UTC Rata Die days, seconds and nanoseconds as a 3-element list.
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