Hi Marcel, I wan't aware that the Russians ever had a different calendar, except that they continued to use the Julian calendar longer than almost every other Western country.
The Gregorian calendar — which simply has a different scheme of leap years from the old Julian calendar, but the same months, and the same lengths of the different months — was instituted in 1582; England didn't adopt it until 1751, by which time the Julian calendar was 11 days out compared to the Gregorian calendar (it was in use in Scotland before that, which meant that the date was different in England from what it was in Scotland until 1751!); Russia continued to use the Julian calendar until 1918, when it converted to the Gregorian calendar, which was by then used by (nearly) all of the rest of Europe. The numbering of the years has varied too, but that doesn't need to concern us here. The Russians did have some strange ways of using the calendar (like 5-day weeks and 6-day weeks between the two World Wars), and a Russian Revolutionary calendar modelled on the old French one was once proposed (but rejected), but as far as I know, the dates in the year (the months and the number of days within them) have always been those of the Julian or Gregorian calendar. Unless you know different, in which case I will be happy to be corrected! /mike On 4 Nov 2015, at 11:41, Marcel S. Henselin wrote: > Hey guys > > I am German and I could give some support. Only the French had during the > time of the Revolution a different calendar. So did the Russian. > > German month names are quite easy and nearly the same as in English. Because > of the umlauts the abbreviations have been internationalized. > > March would be März and the abbr. would be Mär but because other countries > don't have umlauts the Mrz is used. > > Regards > Marcel > > Von meinem Sony Xperia™-Smartphone gesendet > > > > ---- Ron Savage schrieb ---- > > 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 >
