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

submitted 3 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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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Open the calendar on your phone. It’s Sunday.

It's not, it's Monday - Monday is the first day of the week here, to be honest I thought that was the same across the western world. TIL I guess!

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Really? Well I guess I learned too. Mine is absolutely Sunday. Wonder if it's a setting. I'm on Android (Zenfone 10)in the US. You?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

It'll just be part of the culture settings - en-GB (I'm in the UK) systems will have the calendars set the first day of the week as Monday.