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[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's just all use the Holocene calendar.

I learned about it in This episode of The Rest is Science with Hannah fry and Michael Stevens from Vsauce, if you wanna learn cool stuff about our calendars...

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Still fundamentally linked to the estimate of Christ's birth by Dionysius Exiguus, just with an added +10000. To fully unlink that you'd have to find a date that far back or father to link year 0 to that you're sure about and the farther back you go the harder that is.

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Right. But atleast we'd be done with the BCEs.

You're making me wonder what event (that we can precisely date) was/will be important enough worldwide for it to be used as year zero?