this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
109 points (91.0% liked)

science

14445 readers
4 users here now

just science related topics. please contribute

note: clickbait sources/headlines aren't liked generally. I've posted crap sources and later deleted or edit to improve after complaints. whoops, sry

Rule 1) Be kind.

lemmy.world rules: https://mastodon.world/about

I don't screen everything, lrn2scroll

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
109
Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
91 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 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?