Where would you restart the calendar?

[Clueless Morgan]

Interesting thought, but I wouldn't reset the calendar simply because I don't think it would serve any practical purpose.

I'm not talking practical, I'm talking hypothetical.

I'm mixed. I'm not sure I'd want to live in the year "1". I'm just used to a bigger number. I suppose I could always tack on 1000 for that purpose, though, and just have this be 1001, the first year of my wishing to have a new calendar. And have every month have 30 days. I don't care if eventually it would snow in June.

The year you choose wouldn't have to be this year, it could be the year WW1 started (which would make this year 101), the year of the first known human writing (which would make this year +/-5615-ish), the year modern industrialization began (which would make this year +/-200-ish), etc.

Lol, the logic, rational minded side of me wants to spoil the game and say, "why would we restart the calendar, it would only create confusion and would have no practical benefit."

But I'll play along.

Thank you.

I think the most defining point in the Common Era that could be seen as a major transition would be the invention of the internet. There could be a whole other debate as to when that year is, but I would venture 1982, when TCP/IP was standardized and what we know as the internet started.

Now would 1982 be year 0? Or year 1?
I'll go with year 0. That would make it year 32 AG (Al Gore.) And everything before what was 1982 would be BAG (Before Al Gore.)

The internet is an extremely defining moment in history. That would be a good year to restart the calendar.

Year 0 wouldn't exist, though, it would be a naught year, a nothing year, the absence of a year... Wouldn't switching calendar years mean going from 1981 AD to Year 1 AG?


It's interesting that you're all grabbing on to pretty recent (20th century) events, though.