Hi Ron, There is some confusion here between /calendars/ and /names of months/.
The French Republican (or French Revolutionary) calendar was adopted in October 1793 during the French Revolution, and was abandoned in January 1806. The year is divided into 12 months of 30 days (3 weeks of 10 days) each. The remaining 5 to 6 days in the year are grouped at the end if the year, known as Jours Complementairs, and are holidays. Only years 1 to 14 (22 September 1792 to 22 September 1806 in the Gregorian calendar) are supported by the Gedcom definition. The Jours Complementairs are treated as a 13th month. These are the 13 months you have named as 'french_r_month'. So, there is no "BC' in the French Revolutionary calendar. The only valid years are 1 to 14. For dates before year 1 in the FRC (ie before 22 Sep 1792, which in the new calendar was 1 Vendémiaire an I), or after year 14, one uses the usual (Julian or) Gregorian calendar. What you're asking contributors for is quite a different thing: /localizations/ of the 12 months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. As a French localization, for example, you might have: french_month ~ 'jan' | 'fév' | 'mar' | 'avr' | 'mai' | 'jun' | 'jul' | 'aou' | 'sep' | 'oct' | 'nov' | 'déc' or (if you don't want to use accented letters): french_month ~ 'jan' | 'fev' | 'mar' | 'avr' | 'mai' | 'jun' | 'jul' | 'aou' | 'sep' | 'oct' | 'nov' | 'dec' or, as some French sources prefer not to restrict the abbreviations to 3 letters: french_month ~ 'jan' | 'fév' | 'mar' | 'avr' | 'mai' | 'juin' | 'juil' | 'aout' | 'sept' | 'oct' | 'nov' | 'déc' Hope I haven't just confused things even more... /mike On 14 Oct 2015, at 22:47, Ron Savage wrote: > Hi Mike > > On 14/10/15 21:05, Mike Elston wrote: >> … because it's the French _Republican_ Calendar — as I'm sure you all know, >> they're actually different months from the Gregorian/Julian months, not just >> different names for the G/J months. > > Yes. That's for French. But German? > >> /m >> >> On 14 Oct 2015, at 10:04, Ron Savage wrote: >> >>> Hi Michael >>> >>> On 14/10/15 15:19, Michael Ionescu wrote: >>> >>>> german_r_month ~ 'jan' | 'feb' | 'mär' | 'maer' | 'mrz' | 'apr' | 'mai' >>>> | 'jun' | 'jul' | 'aug' | 'sep' | 'sept' | 'okt' >>>> | 'nov' | 'dez' >>> >>> Is there some particular reason you've used 'german_r_month' and not >>> 'german_month'? >>> >>> I used _r_ for French because that's what the Gedcom spec uses. >>> >>> -- >>> Ron Savage - savage.net.au >> > > -- > Ron Savage - savage.net.au
