Re: Re-writing Genealogy::Gedcom::Date

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. =
Vend=E9miaire, 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
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> On 14/10/15 21:05, Mike Elston wrote:
>> =85 because it's the French _Republican_ Calendar =97 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.
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>> /m
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>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 10:04, Ron Savage wrote:
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>>> Hi Michael
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>>> On 14/10/15 15:19, Michael Ionescu wrote:
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>>>> german_r_month	~ 'jan' | 'feb' | 'm=E4r' | 'maer' | 'mrz' | =
'apr' | 'mai'
>>>> 		| 'jun' | 'jul' | 'aug' | 'sep' | 'sept' | 'okt'
>>>> 		| 'nov' | 'dez'
>>>=20
>>> Is there some particular reason you've used 'german_r_month' and not =
'german_month'?
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> To repeat my question: These are German /republican/ names, right?
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> --=20
> Ron Savage - savage.net.au