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Until we hit year 10000, but yeah, that's still a looong time to go.

by k_sze 6y ago

est 6y ago
There's some proposal that this year 2021 is actually 12021, to make the year neutral of some specific religious event.
- ComputerGuru 6y ago
  I know you’re not saying you are encouraging it and it’s just a related but of trivia, but I find that hilarious. Because when someone asks “why start there?” the answer “it’s a thousand years before Jesus Christ was born, the millennium heralding his arrival” is better? (I’m not even Christian but I also don’t have a chip on my shoulder and can accept its influence on the world)
  - bhaak 6y ago
    It's ten thousand years before the assumed (but likely wrong) birthday of Jesus Christ, to have a positive date for all written human history (well, until we find the archives of Atlantis) and an easy round offset for the prevalent human calender in use.
  - grey_earthling 6y ago
    The answer is “because -10000 CE is an approximation of the beginning of human civilisation, using this epoch removes negative year numbers from all historical dates, and it's simple to convert from the ubiquitous CE epoch”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
- mattashii 6y ago
  ... which is funny, because the gregorian calendar is supposedly based on a compromise between some years that christ was supposedly born in (the chosen year 1 is none of those, according to research, as he was born in 6-4 BC [0]). So now we have: another calendar, that has a starting year that is defined by subtracting an arbitrary number from a compromise between alledged years some person was born in. I love how humanity has the capability to invent new things with increasing complexity. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#Birth_date_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#Birth_date_of_Jesu...
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  Yup. I have a calendar for 12021 hanging in my office, and I very like the sentiment it expresses. I tried to use the Holocene years with other people, but they remain unconvinced.

Until we hit year 10000, but yeah, that's still a looong time to go.

by k_sze 6y ago

Until we hit year 10000, but yeah, that's still a looong time to go.

est 6y ago

There's some proposal that this year 2021 is actually 12021, to make the year neutral of some specific religious event.

ComputerGuru 6y ago
I know you’re not saying you are encouraging it and it’s just a related but of trivia, but I find that hilarious. Because when someone asks “why start there?” the answer “it’s a thousand years before Jesus Christ was born, the millennium heralding his arrival” is better? (I’m not even Christian but I also don’t have a chip on my shoulder and can accept its influence on the world)
- bhaak 6y ago
  It's ten thousand years before the assumed (but likely wrong) birthday of Jesus Christ, to have a positive date for all written human history (well, until we find the archives of Atlantis) and an easy round offset for the prevalent human calender in use.
- grey_earthling 6y ago
  The answer is “because -10000 CE is an approximation of the beginning of human civilisation, using this epoch removes negative year numbers from all historical dates, and it's simple to convert from the ubiquitous CE epoch”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
mattashii 6y ago
... which is funny, because the gregorian calendar is supposedly based on a compromise between some years that christ was supposedly born in (the chosen year 1 is none of those, according to research, as he was born in 6-4 BC [0]). So now we have: another calendar, that has a starting year that is defined by subtracting an arbitrary number from a compromise between alledged years some person was born in. I love how humanity has the capability to invent new things with increasing complexity. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#Birth_date_of_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#Birth_date_of_Jesu...
TeMPOraL 6y ago
Yup. I have a calendar for 12021 hanging in my office, and I very like the sentiment it expresses. I tried to use the Holocene years with other people, but they remain unconvinced.