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Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A bigger problem to solve is that depending on where you are, today is 06/08/2024, 08/06/2024, 2024-08-06 .. For. The. Same. Day.

So, can we please standardise on 2024-08-06 across the planet before we start considering what 1/1/1 is?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

ISO 8601 for the win!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601