Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

[james_davis_nicoll]

So many different ways of measuring history and the passage of time...

Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

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[fanf]

The Byzantine calendar, for instance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_calendar

I quite like the idea of the holocene / human era calendar, which for simplicity just adds 10000 years to the christian count. Not quite in exact agreement with the archaeologists or the dating of beer, but not far off. And I think a little more elegant than the Long Now Foundation’s 02025 prefix zero five digit years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar