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[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

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...

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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

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.

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