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 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!
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
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
This is the thread that gives programmers PTSD.
Damn, all of these movies that claimed really cool sci-fi shit by 2500 were all wrong, and so fast too!
If switching calendars gets me out of this history timeline, I’ll do it.
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
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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.
Currently living in 1446 hijri :D
I only ever use Gregorian though.
Today is Pungenday, Discord 30, 3191 YOLD.
I don’t follow any alternative calendars, but being a coin collector I’m aware of the Muslim (Hijri) and Hindu (Vikram Samvat) ones.
In Tamil calendar it is the year 5126. https://www.drikpanchang.com/tamil/tamil-month-panchangam.html
Indian subcontinent has several calendars, followed today, in different parts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_New_Year's_days
Nepal has a different calendar and today happens to be new years day so happy new year! The new year marks the beginning of the year 2082. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Samvat
