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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 56 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

France tried such calendar in 1789 and 1871. We lost it when Jules Ferry executed all the communalists in Paris. Some people in France still use those calendars to show their support to revolutionary ideas

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are a few websites and twitter accounts that remind you that today is Nonidi, 29 Germinal of the year CCXXXII.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Picking up a newspaper in Thailand reminds you it’s year 2567

The reckoning of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of Anno Domini, so the year 2024 AD corresponds to B.E. 2567.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I own such a website and I can confirm that this date is right. French wikipedia though is wrong as it uses a bad simplication reform that was never voted