The thai-Buddhist calendar starts from the he year Buddha is thought to have died. Pretty cool! Any other calendars that you follow?
I follow Unixtime: it is 1744552336 right now. The essence of this calendar is an amount of seconds from 1970/I/1
Its very impressive how historically it’s one of the most important dates! I wonder how far history going to treat it
It overflows a 32 bit integer in 2038, which could cause some interesting problems.
Hope we make it to see it huh
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 not The Buddhist Calendar, it’s the Thai Buddhist Calendar. Plenty of Buddhist countries follow a different standard
Thanks for clarifying - didn’t know that! Corrected the title
:)
This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
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
Feels silly to have months in first place. Could have been just <year>-<day of year>.
In theory, however the ability to break up the year into smaller chunks is very handy for our monkey brains. Small number easy, big number hard.
My favorite calendar as well. Wish we’d just adopt it already
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I served in the army with a Muslim guy as one of my closer friends. He had some days that required special considerations, and while these considerations were not a problem by themselves, finding out when they were needed and planning for them was something I could never wrap my head around.
Ah man you missed 420 just by 26 years
When I was living in Japan I followed the Japanese year because it’s commonly used. In China, everyone used the lunar calendar much more than is recorded. Especially 40s and older people use it for every holiday including birthdays. 20s-30s year olds might do western. It constantly messes with me because it’s not stuck with the solar calendar.
Ah I love the 72 season idea of Japnese calendar. It’s so weird that we try to fit everything in just 4 tbh
I’ve never heard of that in the Japanese context but it seems it was adapted by the court from the Chinese system, as everything was.
That’s part of what makes the lunar calendar so confusing. I don’t think this is used in Japan anymore. Maybe in some religious tradition? But I doubt it.
It is interesting! Thanks for sharing
Wiki recommends learning this “song” to use the terms more easily:
春雨惊春清谷天
夏满芒夏暑相连
秋处露秋寒霜降
冬雪雪冬小大寒
每月两节不变更
最多相差一两天
上半年来六、廿一
下半年是八、廿三
Currently living in 1446 hijri :D
I only ever use Gregorian though.
If switching calendars gets me out of this history timeline, I’ll do it.
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!
Today is 民國114年 (ROC Year 114)
I don’t actually use this calandar, but as a Chinese-American, its an interesting historical calandar. Bring me the vibes of the era of the resistance against japanese invasion. Its hard to decribe the feeling, its like nostalgia, but not exactly, its not too ancient to be associated with monarchism, but not too modern to be associated with the modern Information Era or the Cold War or CCP. Like, it’s this weird time period where makes a great setting for spy movies.
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
🫣🔫
I don’t follow any alternative calendars, but being a coin collector I’m aware of the Muslim (Hijri) and Hindu (Vikram Samvat) ones.
