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Why do you put a zero in front of the year? It took me way too long to figure out what you meant by “01976”. I have never seen anyone do this lol. I’m aware that date codes on components sometimes do that kind of thing but using it in text is just bizarre

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Five digit Gregorian years are a https://longnow.org/ thing, tho when a few millennia are not enough I prefer the holocene calendar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

my concern with the holocene calendar is that it introduces unwanted ambiguity in assertions like "we expect two meters of sea level rise by the year 12124". is that in 100 years or 10100 years?

admittedly most other alternatives like the buddhist, hebrew, discordian, and assyrian calendars have the same problem, but worse

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