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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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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

That is one interesting approach. I like it.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Chinese calendar?

[–] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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)

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 1 month ago
[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

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