Every South Korean turns a year younger

Re:Every South Korean turns a year younger by simple10 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:29PM (#36500150)

Let's go a step farther and reset the year counting from Jesus to L Ron Hubbard's death. Either that or reset on the singularity, but I'm impatient.

[EDIT] I've just been informed LRH didn't completely die. I'll petition for the singularity reset.

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Re:Every South Korean turns a year younger by kibwen on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:43PM (#36500790)

There already exists a notion of "the human era" that adds exactly 10,000 to the current year:

> The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.

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

(Of course, the choice to add exactly 10,000 is a compromise to make it trivial to interconvert between HE and AD.)

You can even buy Human Era calendars: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/calendar

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