Stardates on this site

Captain's log, stardate 78199.692 

I’ve decided to use the new Picard system for stardates on this site. The exact algorithm isn’t given us, so I am matching stardates on the Today’s Stardate app, with the 1945 custom epoch, to make it more useful. Even then, his stardates are slightly different from my calculations, so I had to fudge a bit. 

Today’s Stardate for iOS

Captain’s log, 78194.44. 

I know of only one stardate app for Apple iOS, and that’s Todays Stardate by Rolando Pusineri. 

Calendar names

The French calendar has several names:

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Republican Calendar

Calendar of Reason 
French Revolutionary Calendar 

Romme calendar

New calendar

Jacobin calendar

Equinox calendar

Translation

 

How would the French calendar be translated into English? In The French Revolution: a History by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1837, he wrote, 

“one might say, in mixed English, Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious: these are our three Autumn months...Snowous, Rainous, Windous make our Winter season…Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, are our Spring season...(dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer”

I think that a better translation for autumn would be: Vintageary, Fogary, Frostary. 

Another stardate

 

Captain’s log, stardate  76656.3. We have another stardate sighting. On the second episode of season three, there is a surveillance photo of a Romulan terrorist with a date-stamp of 70398.2812. That puts it around May 25, 2393, at 06:45.  

Picard’s Stardates

Captains log, stardate 76656.0. The showrunner of Star Trek: Picard, Michael Chabon, has said that the show would not be using stardates, for reasons. Last night I watched the first episode of season 3, and was surprised to hear a stardate! But I was not the stardate of the episode, but 43996.2, which meant that it was from  2366, the end of season 2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. That was during the Battle of Wolf 359. I looked at the shirt I was wearing. It says, “Never Forget — Wolf 359, 43989.1”! Even if I didn’t remember, I could have known that it aired in mid-1994 from the stardate. 

Decimal Watch competition

Most assume that the French gave up on decimal time in year III (1795). However, I was reading some old newspapers, found, which I’ve translated. Notice that this is late in year IV (1796). I’ll also point out that some places used decimal time until 1800, after Napoleon’s Coup of Brumaire. 

I’ll also point out that 1 kg of gold is twice the size of an Olympic gold medal, but that’s only gold-played because gold is too expensive, about $60,000.00 per kilogram. 

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JOURNAL OF PARIS.

(BY THE C.s RŒDERER AND CORANCEZ.)

Quartidi 14 MESSIDOR, the IVth year of the French Republic, one & indivisible.

Saturday, JULY 2, 1796 (old style.)

Revolutionary first names

I came across this article.  I had read that it was traditional to name children in the church after their name-day. The Catholic Church has a saint’s name or holiday for every day of the year. There was a decree that children should be named in the city hall according to the new calendar, as part of the campaign of secularism and anticlericalism. I’ve read many birth certificates, but have not noticed any Republican names. The law of 11 germinal year XI (April 1, 1803) stipulated that only the names of illustrious people and those used in the Catholic calendar could be received as first names in the civil status registers.  Names from the Republican calendar were thus prohibited. 

ISO 8601 hours

I have added ISO 8601 dates with decimal hours to the Conversions page. ISO 8601 is the international standard for representation of dates and times in electronic communication. The main part defines a descending order of units from most to least significant, from largest to smallest, that is, year-month-dateThour: minute: second, for example, 2023-03-09T06:05:00. 

Internet Archive

I looked this site up on the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. I don’t recall when I started out, but the oldest archive is from 2001, and the site was already pretty extensive. I started building websites in 1995, so I think that it started soon after. Beck then, I focused more on vanity projects, of which there were many. It seemed like every crank had they their own system of  “metric time.” I think that the publication online of solid information, especially on Wikipedia, made people realize that they weren’t original. I first started learning in the late 70s. 

This site has come a long way since then, but I think it has a good start. 

18 Ventôse year CCXXXI, pimpernel day @ 3^h 84^m 93^s PMT