The thai-Buddhist calendar starts from the he year Buddha is thought to have died. Pretty cool! Any other calendars that you follow?
Currently living in 1446 hijri :D
I only ever use Gregorian though.
This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
If switching calendars gets me out of this history timeline, I’ll do it.
I would love to be on the international fixed calendar, but the rest of the world would look at me weird.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Feels silly to have months in first place. Could have been just <year>-<day of year>.
In theory, however the ability to break up the year into smaller chunks is very handy for our monkey brains. Small number easy, big number hard.
I follow the Holocene Calendar, which simply adds 10,000 to the current year to arrive at 12,025.
12,000 years ago marks when we began the Neolithic revolution and therefore civilization and structures which survive to the modern day.
Great video on this by Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs
It’s 5785 on the Hebrew Calendar.
I follow Unixtime: it is 1744552336 right now. The essence of this calendar is an amount of seconds from 1970/I/1
Its very impressive how historically it’s one of the most important dates! I wonder how far history going to treat it
