On Monday 20 August 2001 23:16, David Cantrell wrote:
> That still doesn't mean that Foo::Bar::Baz-style names don't give us
> some benefits. For example, Date::Convert::FrenchRevolution tells us
> that the module is for converting dates to and from whatever madness
> the French revolutionaries used.
In fact I think it's called that because it inherits from Date::Convert, but
I still agree that it's useful to have three level names.
As for the French Revolutionary Calendar, it's actually rather fun. It was
part of the move to decimalize everything, and to move away from christian
referentials. However, while it's easy to decide arbitrarily that distances,
weights, etc are to be measured in decimal systems, it becomes rather harder
to have a calendar that works that way. There were twelve months of three
weeks (which held ten days), and a number of extra days that belonged to no
month to compensate. Year 1 started with the revolution. I don't recall all
the details, and I don't remember if ten hour (of 100 minutes) days ever
happened.
You can read more about it from http://www.faqs.org/faqs/calendars/faq/part3/
part 6.
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