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Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age
First time accepted submitter chimeraha (3594169) writes "Synchronized with the northern winter solstice and the UNIX Epoch, the terran computational calendar contains 13 identical months of 28 days each in addition to a short Month Zero containing only new year's day and a single leap year day every four years (with the exception of every 128 years). The beginning of this zero-based numbering calendar, denoted as 0.0.0.0.0.0 TC, is on the solstice, exactly 10 days before the UNIX Epoch (effectively, December 22nd, 1969 00:00:00 UTC in the Gregorian Calendar). It's "terran" inception and unit durations reflect the human biological clock and align with astronomical cycles and epochs. Its "computational" notation, start date, and algorithm are tailored towards the mathematicians & scientists tasked with calendrical programming and precise time calculation.
There's a lot more information at terrancalendar.com including a date conversion form and a handfull of code-snipits & apps for implementing the terran computational calendar."
There's a lot more information at terrancalendar.com including a date conversion form and a handfull of code-snipits & apps for implementing the terran computational calendar."
Fail to convert back and forth between...
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What the hell guys, if you're going to try and design something to replaced an entrenched convention, you might as well go whole hog. Oh wait, no, I know... their website isn't in Esperanto because such projects always fail.
After the humans rejected it, they had to rebrand to reach a wider audience.
Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
Urine volume should go metric so that last drop that comes out after you zip up would be centipeed.
Planck length is the only rational measure of distance.
Indeed, unfortunately SI prefixes run out before we can really do anything useful with it (unless you're into particle physics). Therefore, I suggest we standardize on the yotta-planck-length (YPL, pronounced "yoople") as our base unit, utilizing SI prefixes on top of that:
-Intel's new Haswell architecture utilizes a 1361-yoople process.
-I am 117 gigayooples tall.
-The Earth is approximately 2.4 exayooples around.
-The Earth is 9.26 zettayooples from the sun.
As you can see, we run out of SI prefixes again for astronomical scales, so we should use the yottayoople (YYP, pronounced "yippee") for that:
-The Milky Way galaxy is about 59 megayippees across
-The size of the observable universe is about 26.9 terayippees.
I'm sure everyone can get behind these new units. Time to rewrite the textbooks!
-almity "I can't drive 8.2e-7 yooples per yoopit" dave
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I'm, you're, he's/she's/it's, we're, you're, they're