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What's with the leading zeros on the year numbers?
by CoastalCoder 2y ago
What's with the leading zeros on the year numbers?
- the_gipsy 2y agoIt makes you wonder if this is a time traveler
- sp332 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
- bumbledraven 2y agoIn many ways, it would make more sense to use a leading 1 for A.D. years instead of a leading 0. This way, 1984 would become 11984, and the year when Caesar died, 44 B.C. (which is astronomical year –43) would be the year 09957. With this system, which is known as the Holocene calendar, we can specify any year during the period of history for which we know actual year numbers without having to distinguish between B.C. and A.D. (and deal with quirky off-by-one errors due to skipping the year 0) or use negative numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
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- navane 2y agoThat's the dumbest shit I read today, but I just woke up. Changing one arbitrary date for another. There where humans and civilizations 12kya (kilo years ago). I much prefer the 'kya' notation. It doesn't matter if you're 50 years off when taking about things 8kya.
- vundercind 2y agoAs far as I can tell its main purpose is to ensure half of any thread that features someone using it is about that instead of the actual topic. In that sense, what’s “with” it is poor writing.
- kragen 2y agomatthew 7:6
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- AnimalMuppet 2y agoIf you're invoking that, you might keep an eye on Matthew 7:1...
- nullhole 2y agoThe better question is: why only one leading zero.
- helpfulclippy 2y agoMight be this: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...