Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-35006067-20200119173420

NoelMittUns wrote:

"It would make us work more" is totally the reason why the ten-days calendar proposed in the French revolution didn't catch, however. People had totally forgotten the astrological origins of this stuff. A common joke among History teachers is that pragmatic French workers of that time period followed the classical calendar on Sunday and the revolutionary one on décadi.

(as far as I know, it's just a joke, not supported by any evidence)