The thai-Buddhist calendar starts from the he year Buddha is thought to have died. Pretty cool! Any other calendars that you follow?
This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
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.
Great video on this by Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs
Love that one!
It’s 5785 on the Hebrew Calendar.
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
My favorite calendar as well. Wish we’d just adopt it already
Damn, all of these movies that claimed really cool sci-fi shit by 2500 were all wrong, and so fast too!
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
🫣🔫
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!
My family is from India so they use a lunisolar calendar.
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?
I check the Tonalpolhualli everyday. Today is ome cozcacuatli “two vulture”. Aztec Calendar
The only other calendar where I understand how it actually works is the North Korean calendar that begins when Kim Il Sung was born.
