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From: dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: French Revolutionary Calendar
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 07:12:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 07:12:44 1986
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In article <565@idec.idec.stc.co.uk> alan@idec.stc.co.uk (Alan Spreadbury) writes:
>Incidentally, I calculate 16 Dec 1985 as being 25 Frimaire 194; I wonder 
>whether the one-day difference is due to non-leap century years. There
>have been two in our calendar (1800 and 1900), but only one in the
>revolutionary one (100) since 1792, hence I calculate the revolutionary
>year as currently starting on 23 Sept.

In the French revolutionary calendar there is no simple algorithm to
calculate leap years.  Leap years are every 4 or 5 years depending on
the actual start of autumn.  The calendar had been precalculated for
some 20 years or something like that.  Hence a discussion whether
16 Dec 1985 is 25 Frimaire 194 or not is a bit futile.
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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