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My favorite datum from this page is that the days will be 1 hour longer in 180 million years. If the year lengths are constant, by linear interpolation some tim
by gradschool 7y ago
My favorite datum from this page is that the days will be 1 hour
longer in 180 million years. If the year lengths are constant, by
linear interpolation some time around 63 million years from now the
years will be exactly 360 days, just like the ancient Babylonian
calendar. What a great time that will be to be alive and to be a
programmer, with exactly 30 days every month.
- tzs 7y agoWhat makes you think that a 360 day year would be 12 months of 30 days each? We'll probably do something weird, like take all 5 out of February.
- n0rbwah 7y agoJust imagine the nightmare for the poor programmers who will have to maintain backward compatibility for 63 million years of timekeeping.
- gremlinsinc 7y agoThis all assumes we survive the unix 2036 apocalypse. /s I mean it apparently is so bad they sent time travelers back in time to try and fix it. (Google: John Titor)
- animal531 7y agoAlso nevermind the nightmare of 9999-12-31.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe Moon will also change its orbit (it's what's slowing Earth's days), so the length of a month will change, becoming longer.
- T-hawk 7y agoHe meant a month as defined by 1/12 of the tropical year, not a month as defined by a lunar cycle. There's a wonderful Wiki-dive on these topics too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Synodic_month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Synodic_month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe calendar month derives, roughly, from the lunar month. Though yes, they're already non-identical. Some correspondence might tend to continue, whether it's humans or other intelligence applying it. And yes, ultimately, definitions matter and tend to define arguments.