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Where would you restart the calendar?

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Where would you restart the calendar?
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 2:45 pm
Quote: This is an age of modernism, of science, and of technology.


You think so? Have you checked out the Bible Belt lately?
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#12
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 2:45 pm
I'd start it at the beginning of the Unix epoch, 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00 UTC, that'd keep me from having the add 1970 to all the tm_year elements of tm structs. Man, I've wasted actual seconds of my life doing that.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm
Reset to the date of publication of On the Origin of Species, 24 November 1859.
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#14
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm
Reset to 380 AD. When Theodosius issued the Edict of Thessalonica requiring everyone to be xtian.

We could call it BGTS and AGTS.

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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm
(February 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Chas Wrote: Reset to the date of publication of On the Origin of Species, 24 November 1859.

So would you also specify that Nov 24th be the new New Years, too? So not only would the calendar year change, but the months and days would shift around, too?
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#16
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm
I would restart the clock in the day that people having magic beliefs stopped doing so. Forgive me for not sounding confident.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 4:54 pm
(February 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I would restart the clock in the day that people having magic beliefs stopped doing so. Forgive me for not sounding confident.

By that reasoning, the clock never would have started in the first place :p
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 5:01 pm
(February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:
(February 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Chas Wrote: Reset to the date of publication of On the Origin of Species, 24 November 1859.

So would you also specify that Nov 24th be the new New Years, too? So not only would the calendar year change, but the months and days would shift around, too?

Yes. And I would make it 12 30-day months with a non-month holiday between each quarter, and a New Year's Day once a year. And an extra New Year's Day every 4 years.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 8:33 pm
I would go with 1957 because of Sputnik. That is a demarcation point separating our limitation to a single planet from the period where we can access the much larger universe beyond it.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 8:37 pm
(February 24, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Chas Wrote:
(February 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: So would you also specify that Nov 24th be the new New Years, too? So not only would the calendar year change, but the months and days would shift around, too?

Yes. And I would make it 12 30-day months with a non-month holiday between each quarter, and a New Year's Day once a year. And an extra New Year's Day every 4 years.

Nice. I like that. Would the winter holiday be back to back with New Year's? And on the leap year, would we have three straight days of party!?!?
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