Republican Date

There are two different versions of the Republican calendar: Romme's original equinox calendar from the Revolution, used on this page, and Delambre's reformed algebraic calendar, which can sometimes be one day ahead of the equinox.

Current Republican date and decimal time in your local time:

25 Germinal year CCXXXIII, pigeon day @ 1^h 49^m 28^s

Current Republican date and decimal time in Paris Mean Time (PMT):

25 Germinal year CCXXXIII, pigeon day @ 1^h 55^m 77^s PMT

This for the original, official Republican calendar. Dates in the algebraic, reformed calendar may be one day different.

Each day has a different animal, vegetable, mineral or farm implement associated with it, called the rural calendar.

French Republican calendar date, with decimal time, as written in genealogy records during the Revolution. The decimal time is shown with the hour and décime, which is a tenth-hour decimal, about a quarter-hour duodecimal. The first version is rich text; the second is Unicode, suitable for sharing on Facebook or Twitter. Copy and paste the one which looks better in your text editor:

Aujourd'hui le troisième quintidi le jour vingt cinq du mois de Germinal, le jour du pigeon, L 'an deux cent trente trois de la République française une et indivisible à une heure quarante neuf minutes vingt huit secondes décimales.

𝒜𝓊𝒿ℴ𝓊𝓇𝒹'𝒽𝓊𝒾 𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝓇ℴ𝒾𝓈𝒾ℯ̀𝓂ℯ 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓃𝓉𝒾𝒹𝒾 𝓁𝑒 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓉 𝒸𝒾𝓃𝓆 𝒹𝓊 𝓂𝑜𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒 𝒢ℯ𝓇𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓁, 𝓁𝒶 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒹𝓊 𝓅𝒾𝑔𝑒𝑜𝓃, ℒ'𝒶𝓃 𝒹ℯ𝓊𝓍 𝒸ℯ𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝓇ℴ𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒 𝓁𝒶 ℛℯ́𝓅𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓆𝓊ℯ 𝒻𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒸̧𝒶𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝑒 𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓁𝑒 𝒶̀ 𝓊𝓃𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒 𝓃ℯ𝓊𝒻 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝓊𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓉 𝒽𝓊𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝒹ℯ́𝒸𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓈

This is an imitation of how dates and times were written in civil genealogy records in France during the Revolution, as you can see below:

All Republican calendar dates on this site are according to the original calendar, with years starting on the day of equinox, unless specified otherwise. I know that some prefer the proposed reform, which would be easier to use, but original calendar was the only one actually used. 

Times are either in your browser’s local time or Paris Mean Time (PMT), aka temps moyen de Paris (t.m.P.), as it is the obvious universal time zone for timestamps here. It is defined by the Meridien de Paris, the longitudinal line that runs through the Paris Observatory, used by Metropolitan France in previous centuries for telling time and navigating the world. 

At the time of the Revolution, there were no time zones, and every city kept its own time by observing the sun, which varies compared to local mean time. PMT is ahead of GMT, or UTC, by 9 minutes 21 seconds sexagesimal (6 minutes 49 seconds decimal). 

Today, France uses Central European Time, which is one or two hours ahead of the hated Greenwich time, depending on the time of year. But had Revolutionary time taken off, I’m sure we’d all be on Paris Time now!