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Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus? (self.science)

submitted 5 months ago by stardustpathsofglory to c/science

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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] 17 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] laughterlaughter 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] laughterlaughter 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

128 bits?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

64 bit counters are enough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Depends what you count. Seconds? Milliseconds? Nanoseconds?

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