Comments on Decimal Time: Calendrier- French Revolution Calendar

I really like the application.

2010-01-15T16:06:05.338-08:00

I really like the application.

iDateConvert by Which.Lilith displays dates for ma...

2010-01-07T15:52:18.726-08:00

iDateConvert by Which.Lilith displays dates for many different calendars, including two versions of the French calendar, and the Roman calendar in Latin, as well as Coptic, Egyptian and Ethiopian. It's $2.99.

I have 3 decimal time clock apps on my iPod Touch:...

2010-01-07T13:55:03.202-08:00

I have 3 decimal time clock apps on my iPod Touch: French clock, DeciTime and iBeat. The French Calendar app seems cool. I better give it a try.

iCoptic was released a couple of days ago. The Et...

2010-01-07T00:27:17.384-08:00

iCoptic was released a couple of days ago. The Ethiopian Date app was released on Thanksgiving. The latter is $0.99, but iCoptic is $9.99. It must be worth it, though, with 6 5-star reviews already.

DeciTime doesn't seem to have the same refresh iss...

2010-01-06T23:43:39.628-08:00

DeciTime doesn't seem to have the same refresh issue, which is nice. :)

And yes, I am looking for the traditional Latin form. :)

On the same vein, combining the two (FRC and liturgical calendars), I await the day of the traditional Ethiopic and Coptic calendars making their way to the app store...and hopefully free. (Boy, do I wish for alot, don't I? :D )

(Much further off tangent, there is an app now for Martian times as observed by the Spirit & Opportunity rovers... Yes, it's free.)

d.m.f.

BTW, there are some apps which use the Julian cale...

2010-01-06T12:44:51.206-08:00

BTW, there are some apps which use the Julian calendar, although they're mostly in Greek, and don't seem to display the entire month. Just search for "orthodox calendar".

But I imagine you're looking for one in Latin, with 8-day weeks, calends/nones/ides, etc.

It turns out that it's no longer free, but the lit...

2010-01-06T12:30:51.685-08:00

It turns out that it's no longer free, but the lite version has a couple of Roman portrait clocks, although a bit off-beat.

Some decimal time programs have a bug caused by the fact that they're converting a standard time, with one-second precision, but decimal seconds increment more quickly. It's like the difference between lunar and solar months; occasionally you get a blue moon when two new moons happen in the same solar month, as happened last week. That's why my algorithm uses Unix time in milliseconds.

I simply disable auto-locking in Settings. :) I'l...

2010-01-06T02:48:58.718-08:00

I simply disable auto-locking in Settings. :)

I'll check PerfectClock, but last I saw, if I'm not mistaken, it only ran landscape... But I will check into it. :)

BTW, Internet Beat, when it shows centibeats in landscape mode, appears only to refresh once every standard second, and oftentimes-- if you pardon the bad pun- skips a (centi)beat... :) I have brought that up with the guy who made it, but it's never been updated.

d.m.f.

I haven't grabbed it, either, but the description ...

2010-01-05T22:54:55.310-08:00

I haven't grabbed it, either, but the description for MetricClock says, "The clock also rotates with the iPhone/iPodTouch."

One thing I noticed with some of these apps is that there is no option to disable auto-locking, so that the screen won't turn off, like most of the regular clock apps have.

PerfectClock has Roman numerals with portrait mode, and it's free. Not decimal time, though.

I should also add that the Revolution and the Repu...

2010-01-05T16:46:55.619-08:00

I should also add that the Revolution and the Republic actually had different calendars, and to be more correct, this is the calendar of the French Republic, sometimes called the "Calendar of Reason".

Now, if someone made a Roman-numeral decimal clock... ;) There are only a couple Roman numeral clocks for the iPhone/iPod touch, NO Julian/Roman calendar, and certainly no Coligny Celtic calendar, all of which I wish I had right now... (The two clocks only display in landscape mode-- Since I have my iPod on its charging base most of the time, I prefer the standard portrait mode, a reason, ironi9cally, why I haven't grabbed MetricClock yet...)

d.m.f.

I've always favoured the Brumaire system, so I'll ...

2010-01-05T16:34:03.292-08:00

I've always favoured the Brumaire system, so I'll echo what John said, in having multiple versions of the calendar to suit the user. I would've hoped Brumaire would have had an app out by now, but at this point, I'm happy with anything that comes out for my iPod touch. :)

I could think of a few other ideas (notably, a grid representation of the current FRC month, like most conventional calendars; options for the clock to display TMP, UTC and local time, calendar adjusted accordingly; alternate names for months/days that have been applied/adopted... You get the idea! ;) ), but for now, it's a plus. :)

d.m.f.
(who has DeciTime and Internet Beat on his iPod already...)

Perhaps you could provide the different versions a...

2010-01-05T03:06:30.063-08:00

Perhaps you could provide the different versions as an option in settings.

My algorithm was basically to add the average period between autumnal equinoxes, 31,556,907 seconds. I tested it against the actual dates since 1792 until far into the future. I'll send you the code.

I'm Jose Luis Martin, the author of Calendrier. Th...

2010-01-04T15:13:40.356-08:00

I'm Jose Luis Martin, the author of Calendrier. Thanks a lot for your post and comments, I hope it will make the app more known. :)

About the leap years rules, yes, in this first version I'm using the 4/128 rule, but in next version, that I hope to have ready in a few weeks, I will adopt the Romme rule, that is, starting from Rev year 20, calculate the leap years like in the Gregorian Calendar.

After much consideration, I find it the most efficient rule, and in a sense, the most reasonable with a historic sense of justice. Right before his death at the guillotine, Romme was drafting a proposal to adopt the Gregorian rules for leap years. He was executed before being able to submit his proposal, and so the only "legal" rule should be the equinoctal one... but considering that Romme was the father of this calendar, and that his intention was to make this change, he deserves that I use it.