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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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[-] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for your answer and the links! You are right about the Holocene Calendar.

I also think it is unfortunate we did not figure out a better starting point. Therefore the question.

Edit: typo

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Many things us humans do are "unfortunate" because we don't know any better. 2000 years from know, humans might say that it was "unfortunate" that humans used fossil fuels, or wore high heels. Instead of regretting the past, be the change you want to be.

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