Decimal DateTime

NuGet library to handle decimal time and republican (French) calendar.

It works like normal DateTime: it's possible to ask for the current DateTime (DecimalDatetime.DecimalDatetime.Now), the calculate the decimal date-time in a particular moment passing a DateTime (new DecimalDatetime.DecimalDatetime(new DateTime())).

It's possible to choose between different formats using the ToString.

Decimal time

Decimal time was introduced in France a few years after the revolution of 1789, and for a while it replaced the normal way of measuring the time. With decimal time a day is divided in ten hours, each one made by 100 minutes and a minute is divided in 100 seconds. So a second is a bit faster because in a day there are 100000 seconds (10 x 100 x 100) instead of 86400 (24 x 60 x 60).

More info about decimal time.

French republican calendar

To be fully revolutionary this watch converts also the current date in the French republican calendar, a calendar intruduced in France after the revolution. With this calendar every month is 30 days long, and every week 10 days long. In a year there are still 12 months, but there is also a much shorter 13th month used to "complete" the year.

More info about republican calendar.

In memory of Alessandro Candelari, aka Pallettaro

This project was originally developed by Alessandro Candelari, a friend of mine who passed away in June 2017. For a while we helped him with some other friends, but as often happened with Ale, after some weeks of working he abandoned everything because he lost interest in it... I truly believe that it's a pity to waste a so brilliant idea and quite good job, so I decided to keep the project alive.

NuGet package

My NuGet package (.NET Standard 2.0) is this one: Decimal.DateTime.

My friend's package: DecimalDatetime.pallettaro.

Web API

A (small) set of API to get Revolutionary/Republican French calendar date and decimal time info.

- api/datetime

Returns info about this moment:

{"Timestamp":"225-05-02T04:96:07","GregorianTimestamp":"2017-01-21T11:54:21","Year":225,"Month":5,"MonthName":"Piovoso","Day":2,"DayName":"Muschio","Hour":4,"Minute":96,"Second":7,"DayInYear":122}

- api/datetime/{string}

It tries to parse the {string} parameter returning info about that DateTime object, in the same format. The parameter could be a date/time in every format, the parse is attempted in Italian, American English, British English and French.