I hope questions are allowed here. I am curios if there is a different sort of scientific calendar which does not use the birth of Jesus as a reference like AD and BC. For example Kurzgesagt’s calendars use the the current year plus 10000 as this represents the human better or something like that.

Would there be a way to do this more accurately? How could we, in a scientific correct way, define a reference from where we are counting years?

Also I have read about the idea of having 13 months instead of 12 would be “nice” because then we could have a even distributed amount of days per month.

Are there already ideas for this? What would you recommend to read?

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I’ve been buying one every year since they came out. I love how the week starts on Monday.

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I love how the week starts on Monday.

Don’t all calendars start on Monday? I guess calendars in the Middle East might be different as their weekend days are different to those in Europe.

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Nope. Portuguese starts with Sunday. Can’t be changed since Monday = segunda which literally means second.

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I think because the work week feels like the start of the week, especially when people refer to Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, it is assumed that Monday is the first day of the week. Open the calendar on your phone. It’s Sunday. Can’t speak for all cultures but it’s been that way in the US, “forever.”

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Open the calendar on your phone. It’s Sunday.

It’s not, it’s Monday - Monday is the first day of the week here, to be honest I thought that was the same across the western world. TIL I guess!

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