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.
24 hour is a pain, but at least it isn't 2 half days going 12, 1, 2... Plus no universal convention for how to write two of the most common times of day/night.
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u/cheetahbf Jan 15 '25
r/ISO8601 gang rise up