The thai-Buddhist calendar starts from the he year Buddha is thought to have died. Pretty cool! Any other calendars that you follow?
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.
This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
Damn, all of these movies that claimed really cool sci-fi shit by 2500 were all wrong, and so fast too!
Today is 民國114年 (ROC Year 114)
I don’t actually use this calandar, but as a Chinese-American, its an interesting historical calandar. Bring me the vibes of the era of the resistance against japanese invasion. Its hard to decribe the feeling, its like nostalgia, but not exactly, its not too ancient to be associated with monarchism, but not too modern to be associated with the modern Information Era or the Cold War or CCP. Like, it’s this weird time period where makes a great setting for spy movies.
If switching calendars gets me out of this history timeline, I’ll do it.
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
Currently living in 1446 hijri :D
I only ever use Gregorian though.
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!
Today is Pungenday, Discord 30, 3191 YOLD.
In Tamil calendar it is the year 5126. https://www.drikpanchang.com/tamil/tamil-month-panchangam.html
Indian subcontinent has several calendars, followed today, in different parts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year's_days
My family is from India so they use a lunisolar calendar.
The only other calendar where I understand how it actually works is the North Korean calendar that begins when Kim Il Sung was born.
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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
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!
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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