Currently living in 1446 hijri :D
I only ever use Gregorian though.
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This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
I follow Unixtime: it is 1744552336 right now. The essence of this calendar is an amount of seconds from 1970/I/1
Its very impressive how historically it's one of the most important dates! I wonder how far history going to treat it
It overflows a 32 bit integer in 2038, which could cause some interesting problems.
Hope we make it to see it huh
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.
If switching calendars gets me out of this history timeline, I'll do it.
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%27s_days
It’s not The Buddhist Calendar, it’s the Thai Buddhist Calendar. Plenty of Buddhist countries follow a different standard
Thanks for clarifying - didn't know that! Corrected the title
:)
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
Feels silly to have months in first place. Could have been just -.
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.
My favorite calendar as well. Wish we'd just adopt it already
It's 5785 on the Hebrew Calendar.
Today is 民國114年 (ROC Year 114)
I don't actually use this calandar, but as a Chinese-American, its an interesting historical calandar. Bring me the vibes of the era of the resistance against japanese invasion. Its hard to decribe the feeling, its like nostalgia, but not exactly, its not too ancient to be associated with monarchism, but not too modern to be associated with the modern Information Era or the Cold War or CCP. Like, it's this weird time period where makes a great setting for spy movies.
When I was living in Japan I followed the Japanese year because it’s commonly used. In China, everyone used the lunar calendar much more than is recorded. Especially 40s and older people use it for every holiday including birthdays. 20s-30s year olds might do western. It constantly messes with me because it’s not stuck with the solar calendar.
Ah I love the 72 season idea of Japnese calendar. It's so weird that we try to fit everything in just 4 tbh
I’ve never heard of that in the Japanese context but it seems it was adapted by the court from the Chinese system, as everything was.
That’s part of what makes the lunar calendar so confusing. I don’t think this is used in Japan anymore. Maybe in some religious tradition? But I doubt it.
It is interesting! Thanks for sharing
Wiki recommends learning this “song” to use the terms more easily:
春雨惊春清谷天
夏满芒夏暑相连
秋处露秋寒霜降
冬雪雪冬小大寒
每月两节不变更
最多相差一两天
上半年来六、廿一
下半年是八、廿三
Damn, all of these movies that claimed really cool sci-fi shit by 2500 were all wrong, and so fast too!
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!
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
🫣🔫
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
My family is from India so they use a lunisolar calendar.
I don't follow any alternative calendars, but being a coin collector I'm aware of the Muslim (Hijri) and Hindu (Vikram Samvat) ones.
Today is Pungenday, Discord 30, 3191 YOLD.
Maybe an advent one or two, depending on how many chocolates are left behind those little doors.
No flying cars in 2568? Man, this stinks!
Flying cars is such a terrible idea tho. Imagine worrying at home that roof will collapse on you
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
Back when i worked in Thailand the first time i glanced at the date on coworkers computer it threw me for a loop. Then started saying well i live in the future now. Thought there’d be more robots
If you’re a goofball you may follow the Masonic year plus 4000 calendar but I think that was fundamentalist Christian inspired by an ~~ignorant~~ literal reading of the Bible
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?
The only other calendar where I understand how it actually works is the North Korean calendar that begins when Kim Il Sung was born.