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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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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How would you go about changing it and what would be the value in doing so?

I remind you about the difficulty we are currently having eliminating Daylight Savings which requires actual effort to maintain

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Quite simple.

We change February to a 29 day month, and all the others to 28 days, then add a month named after the greatest person to ever live, DragonTypeWyvern. This results in 13 28 day months, and eliminates numerous scheduling mistakes and saves quite a lot of time, on the scale of the rest of human history (hopefully).

Some say to have a separate global holiday with the extra day instead of putting it in February, with it extended to a two day holiday on Leap Years, however making February the longest month is funny.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That doesn't answer how you would get everyone to go along with it. Every program with dates needs to be rewritten. I once again remind you the difficulty in getting rid of Daylight Savings time which requires effort on people to maintain and causes documented problems every year.

You also haven't explained why this would be worth the hassle of doing so.

I did not say it would be difficult to develop a better system, I said it would be incredibly difficult to implement a better system.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Simple. Just do it and ignore everyone who cries about it.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

okay, you let me know how that goes.