The thai-Buddhist calendar starts from the he year Buddha is thought to have died. Pretty cool! Any other calendars that you follow?
I usually count my weeks using the Christian liturgical calendar. For example, today is the first day of Holy Week (quite easy). It gets more obscure though when you have something like “The sixth week after Trinity” (Trinity sunday is a week after Pentecost which is 10 days after the Ascension which is 40 days after easter). Also would define Sunday as the first day of the week, but that’s pretty common where I’m from anyway
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
Love that one!
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
My favorite calendar as well. Wish we’d just adopt it already
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.
Back when i worked in Thailand the first time i glanced at the date on coworkers computer it threw me for a loop. Then started saying well i live in the future now. Thought there’d be more robots
Have you seen Tomorrow and I? It’s thai take on black mirror-like near future scifi and it’s good!
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I served in the army with a Muslim guy as one of my closer friends. He had some days that required special considerations, and while these considerations were not a problem by themselves, finding out when they were needed and planning for them was something I could never wrap my head around.
Ah man you missed 420 just my 26 years
Damn, all of these movies that claimed really cool sci-fi shit by 2500 were all wrong, and so fast too!
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Its very impressive how historically it’s one of the most important dates! I wonder how far history going to treat it
It overflows a 32 bit integer in 2038, which could cause some interesting problems.
Hope we make it to see it huh
It’s not The Buddhist Calendar, it’s the Thai Buddhist Calendar. Plenty of Buddhist countries follow a different standard
Thanks for clarifying - didn’t know that! Corrected the title
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Maybe an advent one or two, depending on how many chocolates are left behind those little doors.
While being aware of other calendars, I don’t follow them because they don’t have any impact on my daily life. When building worlds for tabletop games I love to dive back into them for inspiration!
I check the Tonalpolhualli everyday. Today is ome cozcacuatli “two vulture”. Aztec Calendar
No flying cars in 2568? Man, this stinks!
Flying cars is such a terrible idea tho. Imagine worrying at home that roof will collapse on you
It’s 5785 on the Hebrew Calendar.
Nepal has a different calendar and today happens to be new years day so happy new year! The new year marks the beginning of the year 2082. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Samvat
