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A decimal calendar is a calendar which includes units of time based on the decimal system. For example a "decimal month" would be , or 36.5 days long.
History[]
Calendar of Romulus[]
- Main article: Calendar of Romulus
The original Roman calendar consisted of ten months (however, the calendar year only lasted 304 days, with 61 days during winter not assigned to any month).[1] The months of Ianuarius and Februarius were added to the calendar by Numa Pompilius in 700 BC.[1]
Egyptian calendar[]
- Main article: Egyptian calendar
The ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of twelve months, each divided into three weeks of ten days, with five intercalary days.[2]
French Republican Calendar[]
- Main article: French Republican Calendar
The French Republican Calendar was introduced (along with decimal time) in 1793, and was similar to the ancient Egyptian calendar.[3] It consisted of twelve months, each divided into three décades of ten days, with five or six intercalary days called sansculottides.[3] The calendar was abolished by Napoleon on January 1, 1806.[3]
Proposals[]
The Gregorian calendar, although enjoying near universal acceptance, has sometimes been criticized as being cumbersome, inefficient and culturally imperialistic; as a result a number of decimalized alternatives have been proposed as reforms.
A modern Messiah Calendar has been proposed with a 20-month year and a five-day week.
No decimal calendar proposal to date has gained a level of public acceptance sufficient to ensure its longterm success, and some have argued that the cost of any proposed conversion would far outweigh the savings that it might deliver.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Time and Date AS. "The Roman calendar". Time and Date AS. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/roman-calendar.html. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ↑ "Ancient Egyptian Calendar and Chronology". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100719004746/http://math.camden.rutgers.edu/extension01.pdf. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sanja Perovic (2012). "French Republican Calendar: Time, History and the Revolutionary Event". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 35: 1–16. Template:Hide in printTemplate:Only in print.