It’s an affectation relating to The Long Now. https://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/ It’s, as I understand it, to draw attention to the briefness of our li

It’s an affectation relating to The Long Now. https://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/ It’s, as I understand it, to draw attention to the briefness of our lives and contextualize the decisions we make that have effects long beyond “now”. Personally, I think it’s kind of weird to base it upon the supposed birth year of a religious figure who may not have even lived, but standards are useful, I suppose.