Ray -
Now that I'm back at my desk, I refer you to the French Republican
Calendar - here's an article on wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Nicely found... when offered in the abstract it didn't appeal to me,
but when presented as a real, specific example, which (some) people
adopted in real life if only for less than a decade, it is easier to
take seriously.
TL;DR - 100 seconds = 1 minute, 100 minutes = 1 hour, 10 hours = 1
day, 10 days = a week (French /décade), /3 weeks in a month, and
twelve months in a year. That adds up to 360 so the five or six days
to approximate the solar year were added at the end of the year.
Every fourth year was when six days were added. The years started
with the autumnal equinox (roughly 23 September). The months were
given new names base on nature.
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