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the leading zeros are a sign that the poster is unusually short-sighted and only concerned about the next 98,000 years or so in their fixed-size date representa
by volkadav 4y ago
the leading zeros are a sign that the poster is unusually short-sighted and only concerned about the next 98,000 years or so in their fixed-size date representations.
before i get tarred and feathered, i'm just going for a cheap ironic laugh here, no offense intended! :) more seriously, i sorta doubt humanity is going to be around long enough to care, and if we are, the odds of some apocalypse resetting our calendars aren't zero.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoDuring my first week in my first programming job I remember overhearing a senior engineer saying “don’t worry, there’s not another leap year for 2 years”. I was still working there on February 29, he wasn’t. It was a stressful day. My condolences go out to the engineers who will be working on January 1st 100000.
- Y_Y 4y agoSurely by then we'll have had a powerful enough pope to rename the months at least once.
- andirk 4y agoSEPTember = 7 OCTOber = 8 NOVember = 9 DECember = 10 Fixed it! And do we need the name "JASON" (July to November) first letters? Seems unnecessary.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoEasier to make the year begin in March.
- smeej 4y agoNot sure renaming the months is gonna help with the numbering of the years...
- legulere 4y agoMy hope is that some programmer dictator will instate a form of the discordian calender: - All 5 seasons are the same length - The days of the year always fall on the same week day, as the week is 5 days long - the year always starts with the first day of the week. - the leap day is not assigned a day Things I would change though: - start the year at winter solstice. - put the leap day at the end of the year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar
- UnpossibleJim 4y agoFinally, we can get rid of Wednesday... Wendsday? Woesnday?.... that day in the middle of the week that no one can spell =P
- AmericanChopper 4y agoFebruary needs to be reconsidered as well imo.
- legulere 4y agoIn German Wednesday got that treatment in the middle age and was replaced by what would be midweek in English.
- skissane 4y agoYou can rename the months any time you feel like. The problem is getting other people to go along with your renaming. Once upon a time, enough people cared what the Pope had to say, he could actually succeed in changing the calendar for everybody. But, it would be a rather interesting future history for the Catholic Church to regain power to the point that became true once again.
- JTbane 4y agoI wonder how bad 2038 will be. Real talk, I expect a lot of servers to go down.