NAME

Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary - Conversions from / to the French Revolutionary calendar

SYNOPSIS

Converting a Gregorian date (e.g. 9th November 1799) into French Revolutionary (18 Brumaire VIII).

use Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary;
my Date                                $Bonaparte's-coup-gr;
my Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary $Bonaparte's-coup-fr;

$Bonaparte's-coup-gr .= new(1799, 11, 9);
$Bonaparte's-coup-fr .= new-from-date($Bonaparte's-coup-gr);
say $Bonaparte's-coup-fr.strftime("%A %e %B %Y");

Converting a French Revolutionary date (e.g. 9th Thermidor II) to Gregorian (which gives 27th July 1794).

use Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary;
my Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary $Robespierre's-downfall-fr;
my Date                                $Robespierre's-downfall-gr;

$Robespierre's-downfall-fr .= new(year    =>  2
                                , month   => 11
                                , day     =>  9);
$Robespierre's-downfall-gr =  $Robespierre's-downfall-fr.to-date;
say $Robespierre's-downfall-gr;

INSTALLATION

zef install Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary

git clone https://github.com/jforget/raku-Date-Calendar-FrenchRevolutionary.git
cd raku-Date-Calendar-FrenchRevolutionary
zef install .

DESCRIPTION

Date::Calendar::FrenchRevolutionary is a class representing dates in the French Revolutionary calendar. It allows you to convert a Gregorian date into a French Revolutionary date or the other way.

The Revolutionary calendar was in use in France from 24 November 1793 (4 Frimaire II) to 31 December 1805 (10 Nivôse XIV). The modules in this distribution extend the calendar to the present and to a few centuries in the future, not limiting to Gregorian year 1805.

This new calendar was an attempt to apply the decimal rule (the basis of the metric system) to the calendar. Therefore, the week disappeared, replaced by the décade, a 10-day period. In addition, all months have exactly 3 décades, no more, no less.

Since 12 months of 30 days each do not make a full year (365.24 days), there are 5 or 6 additional days at the end of a year. These days are called "Sans-culottides", named after a political faction, but we often find the phrase "jours complémentaires" (additional days). These days do not belong to any month, but for programming purposes, it is convenient to consider they form a 13th month.

At first, the year was beginning on the equinox of autumn, for two reasons. 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. It was therefore in tune with the republic's motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". But it was not practical, so Romme proposed a leap year rule similar to the Gregorian calendar rule.

The distribution contains two other classes, one where there was no reform and the automn equinox rule stayed in effect, another where the arithmetic rule was established since the beginning of the calendar.

AUTHOR

Jean Forget

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.