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Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Also I need to point that there's nothing scientific about year 0 matching up the birth of some dude, no matter who he/she/them is. Equally important scientifically is the eruption of a random volcano or the birth of a different dude. Or the death of one . Many calendars start when someone started being king, which usually coincides with their father's death.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

There's nothing scientific about February having 28 days, but it would be an unnecessary pain in the ass to change it at this point.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Would it actually?

[–] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

On this point, it would be stupidly hard.

Just from a programming and software perspective. All the old code that runs banks and the back end of air travel. It barely runs as it is, do a switch up of years, even leaving the months alone and it would probably freak out. Standadize the months while you are at it and the whole thing falls apart.

Are you old enough to remember Y2K? That required a lot of techs to spend a huge amount of time fixing code that was never intended to see years change from 19xx to now just even consider 20xx.

That is before we go about changing paper Birth Documents, marriage documents, house deads, ..... Should I go on?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good way to fix these mass layoffs in tech.

[–] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

I like your optimism, fairly unrealistic but the optimism is nice to see

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Haha I would talk about to time keeping in sw but glad I don't to anymore

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