i think years 1-99 should be called the 0th Century. this will improve everything date related
@whitequark We could reckon years according to the Holocene calendar, which just adds 10000 to the Gregorian year number, so that the century designations would just all be incremented by a hundred
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What Day Is It, Really?

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@Zerofactorial love this
@whitequark I think you could get more people on board with calling the beginning of human time the invention of agriculture than with the Year of our Lord. And if the year is 12026 then the pandemic of 12020 seems like practically earlier this morning, which it was