Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!dik
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates
Keywords: French revolutionary calendar
Message-ID: <7641@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 12 Sep 88 14:45:23 GMT
References: <1988Aug28.010835.17290@utzoo.uucp> <2882@hubcap.UUCP> <107@taux02.UUCP> <324@quintus.UUCP> <596@crin.crin.fr> <816@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
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In article <816@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> alan@acer.UUCP (Alan Spreadbury) writes:
 > In article <596@crin.crin.fr> hermann@crin.crin.fr (Miki HERMANN) writes:
 > >
 > >Even a better suggestion would be to use the French revolutionary
 > >calendar. Does someone know which days is the 3rd "brumaire" of the
 > >year 199?
 > >
 > 25 October 1990 (I wonder if Ken Perlow agrees.)
 > 
Strange, all ten fall on the same day :-).
Anyhow, unless you know the algorithm by which the french intended to insert
leap years, it is most likely incorrect.  No, it is not similar to our
calendar.  Although the calendar has been precalculated for 102
years, and there appears to be a pattern, it is not clear enough to tell
how it would fare in the future.  (The pattern gives 8 leapyears in 33 years
or 31 in 128 years, with a leapyear after 3 of 4 normal years.)
-- 
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