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Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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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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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

See the Julian day.

[-] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Very interesting. Thank you!

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

13 months would be great for salaried employees too (so long as the pay per month isn't reduced, which, well, of course it will be, but a man can dream)