An alternate calendar system briefly used by republican France. It had 360 days per year with 5 or 6 “intercalary” or leap days between years. It had 12 months of 30 days, which were comprised by 3 weeks of 10 days. Every day of the year had a unique name: a common plant, animal, mineral, or tool/equipment (ie January 31 was “Broccoli” and May 4 was “Silkworm”).

YSK because it’s an interesting alternative to the Gregorian calendar and the occasionally-proposed 13 month calendar.

Though it did have some problems such as starting in late September (very unusual for a calendar) and not having a robust leap-year system.

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    7 hours ago

    I think it would be fair to highlight that this was revolutionary France’ brainchild. It is a republic today as well but they’ve gone back and forth on that one a bit in the last two centuries.