Hi Ron, As I said before in another message, your question is the result of confusion between /calendars/ and /names of months/.
There's no such thing as "German republican names" for months, any more than there are "German republican months" (or even "German months"). There are just the German names for the usual months that most of the Western world use, the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Whereas the "French Republican names" are the names of the months of the French Republican calendar. How can I make this clear? The abbreviations supplied by Michael Ionescu are simply the common German-language abbreviations for their names for the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. In other words, the date which is written "1 Mar 1970" by an English speaker might be written "1 Mrz 1970" by someone speaking German. But they're the /same/ date. It's quite different from your 'french_r_month' array, which is a list of abbreviations of the names of the months of the French Revolutionary or French Republican /calendar/, and bear no similarity at all to the months of the Gregorian and Julian calendars. They're different months. Vendémiaire, for example, in the French Republican calendar, covered roughly the last week of September and the first 3 weeks of October in the Julian calendar. Same goes for the Hebrew calendar (which, unlike the French Republican calendar, is still in use). It's a different /calendar/. To try another analogy, the German for 'cat' is 'Katze'. They're the /same/ animal. But a 'dog' is a quite different animal. HTH, /mike On 4 Nov 2015, at 09:57, 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. >> >> /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'? > > To repeat my question: These are German /republican/ names, right? > > -- > Ron Savage - savage.net.au
