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I hope questions are allowed here. I am curios if there is a different sort of scientific calendar which does not use the birth of Jesus as a reference like AD and BC. For example Kurzgesagt's calendars use the the current year plus 10000 as this represents the human better or something like that.

Would there be a way to do this more accurately? How could we, in a scientific correct way, define a reference from where we are counting years?

Also I have read about the idea of having 13 months instead of 12 would be "nice" because then we could have a even distributed amount of days per month.

Are there already ideas for this? What would you recommend to read?

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 119 points 11 months ago

Unix time. Zero is midnight UTC on 1 January 1970.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago

Technically the choice of 1st January 1970 is itself a reference to the gregorian calendar

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago

It's not a reference to anything, it's just a moment in time.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I agree with you, but I'm still curious.

How do we handle dates before epoch 0?

Edit: I guess we'll use negative numbers.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

More importantly, how will we handle dates further than 19 January 2038 with Unix time?

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We'll just make a new Unix time on 19 January 2038.

Unix Time 2: 2 Fast, 2 Furious.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

With blackjack and hookers.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago
[-] morhp@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 11 months ago

Depends what you count. Seconds? Milliseconds? Nanoseconds?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I was using that as a common reference to something with which we're already familiar.

[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

often use it as my birthday to crash poorly written scripts. zeros are fun to inject

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