cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22368157
I just saw a video about BC/AD as opposed to BCE/CE and the invention of the Gregorian calendar and I wondered what year it would be if we counted the years like the Romans did.
I prefer to think of us as being in the year 12,024.
We need a time scale that is equivalent to Kelvin.
Welcome to the year 13.7 billion!
What’s that counting from?
12,024 years ago.
Ah ok. Thanks!
The context for that number specifically is this Kurzgesagt video, which suggests that calendars should set their year zero to 12 000 BCE, when human civilization first began.
Start of agriculture I believe?
Well that’s a terrible date, it’s already after we had started living in cities and working on large scale projects.
Bloody Romans!
