The thai-Buddhist calendar starts from the he year Buddha is thought to have died. Pretty cool! Any other calendars that you follow?
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Its very impressive how historically it’s one of the most important dates! I wonder how far history going to treat it
I follow the Holocene Calendar, which simply adds 10,000 to the current year to arrive at 12,025.
12,000 years ago marks when we began the Neolithic revolution and therefore civilization and structures which survive to the modern day.
Great video on this by Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs
Love that one!
It’s 5785 on the Hebrew Calendar.
I would love to be on the international fixed calendar, but the rest of the world would look at me weird.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
My favorite calendar as well. Wish we’d just adopt it already
Feels silly to have months in first place. Could have been just <year>-<day of year>.
In theory, however the ability to break up the year into smaller chunks is very handy for our monkey brains. Small number easy, big number hard.
While being aware of other calendars, I don’t follow them because they don’t have any impact on my daily life. When building worlds for tabletop games I love to dive back into them for inspiration!
Damn, all of these movies that claimed really cool sci-fi shit by 2500 were all wrong, and so fast too!
This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
Yes.
My wife is Thai. I knew Thai New Year was here but it still caught me off guard when she wished me a Happy New Year this morning.
Happy Songkran!
Bpii Mai Thai
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I check the Tonalpolhualli everyday. Today is ome cozcacuatli “two vulture”. Aztec Calendar
There’s the Islamic calendar, which uses the lunar cycle instead of solar one. The Javanese also uses lunar calendar, but with different formula for dating.
I know there’s the Chinese calendar, which is based on lunarsolar cycle. Are they the same?
I usually count my weeks using the Christian liturgical calendar. For example, today is the first day of Holy Week (quite easy). It gets more obscure though when you have something like “The sixth week after Trinity” (Trinity sunday is a week after Pentecost which is 10 days after the Ascension which is 40 days after easter). Also would define Sunday as the first day of the week, but that’s pretty common where I’m from anyway
In Tamil calendar it is the year 5126. https://www.drikpanchang.com/tamil/tamil-month-panchangam.html
Indian subcontinent has several calendars, followed today, in different parts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year's_days
My family is from India so they use a lunisolar calendar.
Nepal has a different calendar and today happens to be new years day so happy new year! The new year marks the beginning of the year 2082. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Samvat
The only other calendar where I understand how it actually works is the North Korean calendar that begins when Kim Il Sung was born.
