https://xkcd.com/2846

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I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

  • Turun@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’m with you on most things.

    Two counter points though

    • a normal date is already 14 characters: 2023-10-25-2100

    • while I dislike the religious connection of the year numbering, I actually don’t care about it. And adding ten thousand to it doesn’t change anything. It’s like putting a spoiler on a slow car and then pretending it’s better now. No it isn’t you are just expressing your desire for something better in a shitty way that is actually worse. Seriously, adding a 1 to the year is a useless change.
      If you desperately want to change year zero, there apparently exists the Julian period and Julian day number:

    The Julian day number (JDN) is the integer assigned to a whole solar day in the Julian day count starting from noon Universal Time, with Julian day number 0 assigned to the day starting at noon on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC, proleptic Julian calendar (November 24, 4714 BC, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar), a date at which three multi-year cycles started (which are: Indiction, Solar, and Lunar cycles) and which preceded any dates in recorded history. For example, the Julian day number for the day starting at 12:00 UT (noon) on January 1, 2000, was 2451545.

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        1 year ago

        Op forgot a few characters to ensure proper iso date and time format:

        20231025T210000Z

      • Turun@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I’m in favor of global UTC as well, so the same as your example date.

        The point was more in comparison to the 31 character claim, which is not a fair comparison when you spell out the name of the month.