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Actually I think we do need years. It is kind of nice to know that the snowy season is typically dec-feb. That the warm summer months are July and August. And s

Actually I think we do need years. It is kind of nice to know that the snowy season is typically dec-feb. That the warm summer months are July and August. And so on. Without having to do some mental arithmetic

ada1981 8y ago
Yes I think this is true. I’m curious how future humans will relate. You could imagine an intergalactic mission in which the calendar was kept as a keepsake from earth. And if a new planet is colonized, would we work to stay in sync with earth in some way? Keep the same basic names but morph them? What happens when two different civilizations meet with different calendars (we have some historical data on that).
- ZenPsycho 8y ago
  if you’re talking intergalactic, you have relativistic time shearing effects to deal with as well.
true_religion 8y ago
You could do that without explicit years if you had a base 12 system.