This is based on a cool, but ultimately incorrect historical theory called “phantom time.” The general premise being that European history (and world history) was mostly fabricated as propaganda by royalty. It wouldn’t be so crazy except, a) archeology exist and validates certain medieval records and b) non European Nations exist, and record their own interactions with Western Nations.
Wait until this guy hears that time is just something we made up/invented!
We did not invent time. Nor did we make it up.
Correct! It was the bourgeoisie looking for ways to control factory workers
Until we invented it everything was happening at once. It was chaos!
That was back when the world was black and white. I’ve seen the pictures.
it has been approximately 12000 years since our ancestors constructed what are now the ruins at Gobekli Tepe. But saying it’s been exactly 12,000 years would be silly, so let’s toss in some variation and call it the present 12,024 years since then. I like this because it puts the history we presently call “ancient” into perspective. By this measure, the bronze age began around the year 6,800 and its collapse happened around the year 8,800. Two thousand years, our species toiled at working bronze. Yes, a lot of explosive progress (some of it literal) happened in the 11,900s, but it took us over eleven thousand years to get there in the first place. We’re really not so far from the 11,500s when we were just getting used to connecting the whole globe with transoceanic trade. It seriously stunts our achievements to write off everything that happened prior to year 10,000 as if it were irrelevant.
And humanity existed for hundreds of thousands of years before that.
The reality is that it doesn’t matter. It’s all arbitrary.
What matters is we all agree on it.
The Gregorian calendar didn’t go into effect until 1582. Because it’s a modification of the Julian calender. Which replaced the Roman calender.
Almost like there’s a continuity or something.
The Gregorian calendar didn’t go into effect until 1582.
And 1583. And 1589. And 1587 and 1610 and 1700. And also 1752, 1873/74, 1916, 1918, 1923, and 1926/27.
Easy, it’s 1715894564 after Jan 1 1970 00:00:00.
no its 1715898281 ffs
Out of curiosity, is there a “time limit” for this epoch value, or can it go on indefinitely?
Sort of. There’s one coming up in 2038 where the number overflows a signed 32 bit integer. Anything using 32 bits for timestamps is going to get a wee bit confused.
This should be the last time that happens though as a 64 bit signed int can carry us to something like the year 290 billion
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