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Subject: Re: French Revolutionary Calendar
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 09:50:37 EST
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> 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.

It's not clear how leap centuries were to be handled, indeed if they
were to be handled at all.  That is, I could find no mention of this
correxion in any histories of the French Revolution.  It is
reasonable to assume, however, that the Convention picked up the
leap-century correxion since it also picked up leap years.  But
since the French Revolutionary Calendar used 4n+3 leap years, the
non-leap centuries may have been similarly skewed.  I shall recheck
my algorithm, and since there seems to be some interest, post it
to net.sources.
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