I hope questions are allowed here. I am curios if there is a different sort of scientific calendar which does not use the birth of Jesus as a reference like AD and BC. For example Kurzgesagt’s calendars use the the current year plus 10000 as this represents the human better or something like that.

Would there be a way to do this more accurately? How could we, in a scientific correct way, define a reference from where we are counting years?

Also I have read about the idea of having 13 months instead of 12 would be “nice” because then we could have a even distributed amount of days per month.

Are there already ideas for this? What would you recommend to read?

  • JackbyDev
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    171 month ago

    It’s not a reference to anything, it’s just a moment in time.

    • @laughterlaughter
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      I agree with you, but I’m still curious.

      How do we handle dates before epoch 0?

      Edit: I guess we’ll use negative numbers.