The French revolutionary watches were only produced for a very short period of time and this watch is the most complicated known type for this period, it is also very rare to find this type of watch with an intact enamel dial. It also adjusts well to digital time representation using epochs, in that the internal time representation can be used directly both for computation and for user-facing display. 534 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 34 decimal minutes after the start of that day, or 0.534 (53.4%) of a day through that day. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a time stamp as a fractional day, so that. For instance, 1:23:00 is 1 decimal hour and 23 decimal minutes, or 1.23 hours, or 123 minutes 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. Therefore, it becomes simpler to interpret a time stamp and to perform conversions. In October 1793, the Christian calendar was replaced with one reckoned from the date of the Revolution, and Festivals of Liberty, Reason, and the Supreme Being. The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base used to divide the time is the same as the one used to represent it, the whole time representation can be handled as a single string. This term is often used specifically to refer to French Revolutionary Time, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds, as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds. A new Republican Calendar was established in 1793, with 10-day weeks that made it very. The revolutionary system was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and was part of a larger attempt at decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication).ĭecimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. The French Revolution (French: Rvolution franaise evlysj. The French revolution calendar was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.
The present watch was made to compare the French revolution Calendar or Calandrier republicain to the Gregorian calendar (the one we use) it also compares the decimal time or revolutionary time to the normal time or duodecimal time.