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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] BarbecueCowboy 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

Unix Time 2: 2 Fast, 2 Furious.

[–] toynbee 1 points 1 month ago

With blackjack and hookers.

[–] laughterlaughter 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Depends what you count. Seconds? Milliseconds? Nanoseconds?