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Where would you restart the calendar?
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Begin the years-count at 1969 CE. The first day of the new year would be called 'Neilsday' and would belong to no week.
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 RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 24, 2015 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2015 at 9:06 pm by dyresand.)
My perfect calendar would strip out ever work day ever and only be days for vacation.
 On a serious note. I would remove AD and use something like either x or s.
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The beginning of the Renaissance.
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(February 24, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Beccs Wrote: The beginning of the Renaissance. To prevent religion from getting out of control? Or influence it for the better not to do the crazy shit it did in history?
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In the year of our Ford?
Or maybe, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment?
Hmm........ if i had to i would go back before the dark ages and stop people from altering the bible.
another place in time well... hmm.. the 70's i would start the world during the 70's
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I'd put year zero at the perihelion of Earth's orbit 11,700 years ago. The beginning of the Holocene epoch. There should be thirteen 28 day months with an extra day added at the end of each year. Add two days for leap years.
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I think 1905, the year Einstein published the theory of special relativity would make a good year one.
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 RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 12:24 am by Jenny A.)
I like Becc's beginning of the Renaissance though that's hard to date. You could pin it to Erasmus I suppose. Other really important sea change dates occur to me: Newton's death or birth or perhaps publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica; the publication date of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is another possible (I see Faith No More just beat me to this one); the dropping of the first atomic bomb; the inception of the internet.
I love to replace the current year one with the date of Socrates death. And then start the modern era with one of the above dates.
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