User:AlParkPark/sandbox

Testing the ability to cite and to be able to make edits within my own sandbox is pretty interesting.


 * Making a bullet list: It does things! And better yet, it goes to a different article

The following are proposed reforms of the Gregorian calendar:


 * International Fixed Calendar (also called the International Perpetual calendar)
 * World Calendar
 * World Season Calendar
 * Leap week calendars
 * Pax Calendar
 * Symmetry454
 * Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar

French Republican Calendar
In conjunction with the French Revolution and the establishment of the First French Republic, the French Republican Calendar, or calendrier révolutionnaire, was introduced in 1793 as part of a series of reforms to separate the Republic from the old monarchical traditions. Similar to the introduction of the metric system to most of Europe, the calendar worked to simplify units of measurement; the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar were kept, though renamed, but each month was to be an exact 30 days which were further subdivided into 3 10-day weeks. Extra days, which amounted to 5 or 6 depending upon leap years, were called "complementary days" and were added on as national holidays of France at the end of the year. The starting year of the calendar was to be reset, and the year 1792 according to the Gregorian Calendar was to be converted to Year I in the new system.

The calendar was officially adopted in a number of places in which the French conquered during the Coalition Wars, making its way to the Low Countries, Switzerland, and parts of modern-day Germany and Italy. The primary purpose of the calendar was to remove religious influence from the calendar, and was part of a larger attempt at decimalization in France.

The new system of tracking dates is regarded by many historians as being generally unpopular with the public at large. The 10-day week was unpopular with workers who now received one full day off out of ten, rather than one in seven. It also conflicted with sunday religious observances and religious holidays, though this was an intended effect. After the coronation of Napoleon, the calendar was significantly altered and eventually retired as the Gregorian Calendar was reinstated beginning on 1 January 1806.