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> Talking about dates before this epoch makes little sense (any date before the Gregorian epoch will not resemble the same stellar / planet constellation as dat
by jefftk 5y ago
> Talking about dates before this epoch makes little sense (any date before the Gregorian epoch will not resemble the same stellar / planet constellation as date after the Gregorian epoch).
That is not the only sense in which we care about dates. For example, we might want to talk about which of two events came first, and by how much. Historians have lots of uses for dates before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
- SBArbeit 5y agoYes, but we won't need 100ns precision for those historical dates.
- contravariant 5y agoSurely they'd be using some kind of timestamp standard not a UUID?
- zvrba 5y agoHistorically, calendars came to be from observing the movement of planets and stars. Now: > we might want to talk about which of two events came first, and by how much Neither of which makes sense without having a common reference point (start of Gregorian calendar being one such possible reference point). Trivial example: there is exactly one day between 1582-10-04 (Julian c.) and 1582-10-15 (Gregorian c.), i.e., different reference points. > Historians have lots of uses for dates before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. Yes, and I bet they're hyper-aware about the calendar system(s) they're using. The rest of our mortals can just use Gregorian calendar :)