Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
by zvrba on Saturday August 07, 2021 @01:59AM
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Historically, calendars came to be from observing the movement of planets and stars. Now:
> we might want to talk about which of two events came first, and by how much
Neither of which makes sense without having a common reference point (start of Gregorian calendar being one such possible reference point). Trivial example: there is exactly one day between 1582-10-04 (Julian c.) and 1582-10-15 (Gregorian c.), i.e., different reference points.
> Historians have lots of uses for dates before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
Yes, and I bet they're hyper-aware about the calendar system(s) they're using. The rest of our mortals can just use Gregorian calendar :)
> we might want to talk about which of two events came first, and by how much
Neither of which makes sense without having a common reference point (start of Gregorian calendar being one such possible reference point). Trivial example: there is exactly one day between 1582-10-04 (Julian c.) and 1582-10-15 (Gregorian c.), i.e., different reference points.
> Historians have lots of uses for dates before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
Yes, and I bet they're hyper-aware about the calendar system(s) they're using. The rest of our mortals can just use Gregorian calendar :)