Rick SavageToday, #constitutionday, is also Secular Student Alliance's #AskAnAtheist day. I'll try to gently spill over from birdsite because 
fediverse. Please join in of you're able.
I'm an atheist. Ask me anything.
Ludovic Courtès@bav What do you think of the calendar and its religious references?
French Revolution went all the way by creating a secular calendar and I can’t help but think it’s the way to go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
@civodul I definitely support a secular calendar wrt government-sponsored, or even public, holidays or days of observation.
Thanks for the link about the Revolutionary Calendar; fun history lesson 🙂. It sounds like the reshaping of the calendar was also influenced by a decimalisation trend at the time? Maybe the U.S. can work on the calendar system once we finish our conversion to SI 😉
@bav Yeah the calendar and clock (!) are very much decimal: 10-day weeks, 10-hour days.
Another interesting aspect is that nature-inspired first names were used, some of which are still quite common.