Dates and times are prime examples of modular systems that make the most sense when they start at 0. but most commonly start at 1. Think how stupid it is that t

Dates and times are prime examples of modular systems that make the most sense when they start at 0. but most commonly start at 1. Think how stupid it is that the day start at 12 hours then goes back to 1 hour, at least 24 hour clocks do away with this absurdity. My personal take is that we should not let one short sighted decision 1500 years ago to mess us up and the first century covers from years 0 to 99 and the 21 century 2000 to 2099 https://madeofrome.com/how-was-it-made/how-did-we-choose-the-year-zero-or-rather-the-year-1/ https://madeofrome.com/how-was-it-made/how-did-we-choose-the... I have a database where I tried keeping once per year periodic events(like birthdays or holidays) as postgres intervals, so number_of_months:number_of_days_in_month past start of year or effectively 0 based month-day. this looks weird but solved so many calculation problems I kept it and just convert to more normal 1 based on display. and a shout out to postgres intervals, they do a heroic job at tracking months, a thankless job to program I am sure.