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Where would you restart the calendar?
#21
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
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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#22
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
My perfect calendar would strip out ever work day ever and only be days for vacation. Big Grin
On a serious note. I would remove AD and use something like either x or s.
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#23
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
(February 24, 2015 at 8:33 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: 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.
I was thinking the Moon landing was a more significant demarcation. Start from the moment Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.
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#24
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
The beginning of the Renaissance.

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#25
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
(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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#26
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
In the year of our Ford?

Or maybe, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment?
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#27
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
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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#28
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
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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#29
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
I think 1905, the year Einstein published the theory of special relativity would make a good year one.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#30
RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
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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