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The French Republican calendar (used by the Revolutionary government in France in the 1790s and early 1800s before Napoleon abolished it as he did most revoluti
by jhbadger 3y ago
The French Republican calendar (used by the Revolutionary government in France in the 1790s and early 1800s before Napoleon abolished it as he did most revolutionary innovations) had a similar system of 5 or 6 holidays outside any "week" (technically "decades", as they used 10 day blocs as part of the same base 10 obsession that led to the metric system) or month called the "Sansculottides". It apparently worked fine. The main drawback was the 10-day week as workers only got off on one day in 10 rather than 1 in 7 (weekends weren't a thing then and people normally only got off on Sundays).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar