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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:02:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Bad idea: the lunar timestamp
   It's just like the Unix timestamp, but about 14.5 million higher, because it instead uses the Apollo 11 landing as the epoch

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:25:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • thomas bohn

     @tehabe fun fact: there were a lot of people in 1900 who thought it was a leap year!

     I know because I used to work in digitizing historical weather records and you would be shocked how many people recorded the weather for February 29th, 1900, a day that did not exist.

   • thomas bohn (tehabe@norden.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:25:06 JST thomas bohn

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     @foone still better than counting the days since jan 1, 1900 and thinking that 1900 was a leap year

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 07:26:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • acb

     @acb isn't that how the gregorian calendar already works?

   • acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 07:26:10 JST acb

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     @foone TempleOS uses (its creator’s idea of) the birthdate of Jesus as its epoch. Which makes me wonder if the North Korean version of Linux has been modified to use the God-Emperor’s birthdate as its one.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 10:03:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • acb

     @acb yeah, the birth of christ is questionably dated and 4 BC is a common date. Herod is mentioned as being in charge at the time of his birth, but Herod probably died in 4 BC, or possibly as late as 1 BC.
     The AD/BC system wasn't set up until 525 AD, and there was some guesswork involved and inaccurate records.

   • acb (acb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 10:03:37 JST acb

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     @foone If one assumes 1/1/0 as the birthdate of Jesus; this guy had a different one (a few years earlier, I think)