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

submitted 3 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] 2 points 3 months ago

The one I am looking for counts the remaining days to total nuclear annihilation.

[–] someguy3 2 points 3 months ago

Chinese calendar?

[–] m3t00 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

now could always be zero with future positive and past negative. serious refactoring

[–] stardustpathsofglory 2 points 3 months ago

That is one interesting approach. I like it.

[–] jpreston2005 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)

[–] m3t00 1 points 3 months ago

ask ntp. they breath this stuff. https://www.ntp.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Stardate 4

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