French Republican Calendar accepted universally.

I love the French Revolution Calendar for one reason and one reason only: the translations that the British press of the time used for their months, as a mockery of course:

Wheezy, Sneezy and Freezy; Slippy, Drippy and Nippy; Showery, Flowery and Bowery; Wheaty, Heaty and Sweety

I do remember seeing that in my "French Revolution and Napoléon" class, but I'd forgotten just how delicious the pun was. Sigged.
 
Other than being complicated, especially when calculating leap years, (which if I remember right contradicted itself, someone correct me if I'm wrong) its only purpose was to dechristanize France, not really a proper goal when making a calendar, so unlike the metric system, which did have a better purpose, once religion is acceptable again it has no purpose, and Napoleon also used getting rid of it as show of good will to the Pope, not that that made any difference in the long run, as he for all intensive purposes held the Pope prisoner later, interestingly enough though it seemed like in Paris more people cared about loosing Sunday then they did when the Republic order the mass drowning of clergy, or the "pacification" of the religious rebels in the Vendee region
 
Any calendar has to be based on a seven-day week if it is to have any chance of being accepted. And there cannot be extra days outside the weeks or they would throw off the weekly religious cycle.

But I do like the idea of every month being an integer multiple of a week, starting on Sunday the 1st and ending on Saturday the 28th (or Saturday the 35th), even if every month would also include a Friday the 13th.

My proposal would be eight four-week months and four five-week months in a year, divided into four thirteen-week quarters. This results in a 364-day year, so an extra week would be inserted every fifth year at the end of that year, for a five-year first-order cycle. Skipping the extra week on every ninth first-order cycle results in a 45-year second-order cycle. I have not worked out exactly how long the third-order cycle would be, where the skipped extra week is retained for one time it would normally be skipped, but it's around 1000 years.

So the year calendar would be (with local month names as needed):

January -- 35 days
February -- 28 days
March -- 28 days
April -- 35 days
May -- 28 days
June -- 28 days
July -- 35 days
August -- 28 days
September -- 28 days
October -- 35 days
November -- 28 days
December -- 28 or 35 days
 
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The problem with the Revolutionary Calendar (besides that it doesn't really offer a practical benefit over the older calendar, and inertia will lead people to stick with what they know) is that it doesn't square very well with the traditional Judeo-Christian notion of a seven-day week, so convincing religious groups to accept it would be very difficult.
I've read that the impossibility of getting people to accept a 9:1 ratio rather than a 6:1 for working days vs days off was what really killed it.
 
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