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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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[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

With blackjack and hookers.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

64 bit counters are enough

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