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> at the current rate it'll be ~9000ad before we hit an hour offset And the leap year problems of the Julian calendar weren't a problem… until they were. And t
by throw0101a 4y ago
> at the current rate it'll be ~9000ad before we hit an hour offset
And the leap year problems of the Julian calendar weren't a problem… until they were. And then good luck coördinating things:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_by...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_cale...
- Stupulous 4y agoThe Julian Calendar was good enough for centuries after the empire that invented it had fallen, which I think counts as good enough in general. That said, I'd love to read a story about tracking down some time bug a million layers of abstraction down from the state of tech in 9000AD.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- willis936 4y agoThe thing is, we've remade calendars many times in the past millennium and our current calendar is not gospel. Sidereal drift can and should be addressed with a calendar fix, not a clock fix. The clock's a clock, the calendar's a calendar. It doesn't matter if we can make our clocks calendar-like because they shouldn't be anyway.