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> why do you write your years with a leading zero? I've never seen that before and it has quite a cognitive strain for me. Not OP, but I had the same question
by miles 5y ago
> why do you write your years with a leading zero? I've never seen that before and it has quite a cognitive strain for me.
Not OP, but I had the same question and did a few seconds of cursory searching to no avail. But rather than cognitive strain, I found it opened up a much larger vista on the perception of time and our seeming place in it. While I am unlikely to adopt it, perhaps the experience would be even broader with a few more zeros tacked on! ;-)
- csande17 5y agoOP probably got the idea to place a leading zero before the year from the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
- miles 5y agoThank you very much for the pointer!
- martinflack 5y agoRelatedly, I like the Human Era notation for expanding the idea of years, where 1 AD is equal to 10,001 HE to denote approximately ten millennia since the start of human cities and agriculture, i.e. civilization. We're living in 12021 HE now. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
- aaron_m04 5y agohttps://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/