What year are we in?
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Discussion
24 BC
Gregorian calendar: 2024
Jewish calendar: 5785
Islamic calendar: 1446–1447
Chinese calendar: Year of the Dragon (4722)
Julian calendar: 2024
Persian calendar: 1403
Ethiopian calendar: 2017
Thai solar calendar: 2567
Note that some calendars, like the Islamic and Chinese, are lunar or lunisolar, causing their new year dates to vary annually.
Additionally, the Julian calendar is currently 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, so December 30, 2024, Gregorian corresponds to December 17, 2024, Julian.
The Ethiopian calendar is approximately seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar, so December 30, 2024, Gregorian corresponds to December 21, 2017, Ethiopian.
The Thai solar calendar adds 543 years to the Gregorian calendar, so December 30, 2024, Gregorian corresponds to December 30, 2567, Thai solar.
These differences arise from each calendar's unique system for calculating years and months.
Year 054 post UNIX epoch
About to be year 055 on January 1
This system makes more sense to me than basing the calendar on a birthday from legends
Too focused on technology. Tech is just a part of life.
1. This conversation is happening digitally, using devices that count time from the unix epoch
2. When was the last time you used a clock set by synchronizing it with a sundial or something old fashioned instead of having all your clocks and calendars set to what the electronic infrastructure of our time tells you?
3. I don't mean to be cynical - it's not like all the old fashioned people are gone. There are still monks all over the world who have tracked calendars by hand for centuries, without electronics. But if we're to trust they've counted correctly from a legendary birthday, then we should trust they've also counted correctly for the older calendar used widely before and after that, which started from the 312 "BC" conquest of Babylon by Seleucus I Nicator, which we still have documentation of from the time unlike the birth of the legend Christ. So, if you had asked me personally this question in a handwritten letter, I'd have been forced to pick between year 054, supported by the electronics I trust counting from the UNIX epoch; or the year 2335, I think is the one we're up to in the handwritten record, unless I'm off by 1 because I usually use the UNIX calendar and I can't remember if the other one has new years in January or whether it started from year 0 or year 1
I see your point with UNIX epoch. It is better than the current one for sure, although I am not convinced it is the best starting point of other possible starting points. Maybe you are right and it is cause other species in animal kingdom don't have the need to measure time like Homo Sapiens. International Atomic Time (TAI) measured from January 1, 1970 (The UNIX epoch)? Intresting.
Thanks for being interested 🤙
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