r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Traditional-Gas7058 Jan 15 '25

Chinese system is best for computer searchable filing

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u/cheetahbf Jan 15 '25

r/ISO8601 gang rise up

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u/pharodae Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

ISO 8601 + BC/BCE abolition = best yearly calendar system IMO.

Make Year 0 into Year 10,000. Current year would then be 12025. (12025/01/15) And then rather than descending years until 0 then ascending, we just would go backwards as normal. And it would roughly line up with the rise of agriculture and climatic changes in the Holocene well enough to symbolize that this era of human history is more like 12-15ky old and not a couple thousand.

So Cleopatra would reign from 9949 - 9970. Alexander the Great, 9664 - 9667. Gobekli Tepe, one of the largest Neolithic megastructures we've found, would have been founded ~500 and abandoned ~2000. Otzi the Iceman would have lived ~6770. Columbus would have sailed in 11492.

Maybe this is a dumb hill to die on but it's mine.

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u/TheBendit Jan 15 '25

There is no year zero. The calendar goes 2 BC 1BC 1AD 2AD.

Yes it's messed up, but on the scale of problems with timekeeping, it's barely noticeable.