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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by csande17 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:50PM (#27337701)
OP probably got the idea to place a leading zero before the year from the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by miles on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:53PM (#27337735)
Thank you very much for the pointer!
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by martinflack on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:27PM (#27339729)
Relatedly, I like the Human Era notation for expanding the idea of years, where 1 AD is equal to 10,001 HE to denote approximately ten millennia since the start of human cities and agriculture, i.e. civilization. We're living in 12021 HE now.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

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