Which do you use when writing dates? Do you naturally write the one you pick or do you edit afterward?
I naturally use BC and AD and don't edit.
I naturally use BC and AD and don't edit.
Honestly not seen CE/BCE outside hipster atheists on the Interwebs.
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
Still in the habit of using AD/BC in conversation but my lecturer would murder me if I used AD/BC in an essay.
Not much of an opportunity to use either, tbh. If I did, it would be dependent on my audience, I think.
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I have no reason to use BC, don't use the others either.
Fuck Israel
I always used AD/BC because that's what comes naturally, but BCE and CE are cooler.
BCE and CE
There was no year zero.
There was no year zero.
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BCE and CE are the standard use in academia.Cheez wrote:
Honestly not seen CE/BCE outside hipster atheists on the Interwebs.
Depends on the institution really.Superior Mind wrote:
BCE and CE are the standard use in academia.Cheez wrote:
Honestly not seen CE/BCE outside hipster atheists on the Interwebs.
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Ok, for a secular institution. Maybe a Catholic school might use ad/bc
Ironic, though, as they still reference the time of Christ.Superior Mind wrote:
Ok, for a secular institution. Maybe a Catholic school might use ad/bc
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)Hurricane2k9 wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)AussieReaper wrote:
BCE and CE
There was no year zero.
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The year 1 is just used as a turning point. Before common era, common era. It's not like the academic world is going to invent a new calendar all together.FEOS wrote:
Ironic, though, as they still reference the time of Christ.Superior Mind wrote:
Ok, for a secular institution. Maybe a Catholic school might use ad/bc
e: it's a fallacy of our shitty Gregorian calendar. What the fuck is a leap year? Why can't we just have a more accurate calendar?
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Stupid February.Superior Mind wrote:
e: it's a fallacy of our shitty Gregorian calendar. What the fuck is a leap year? Why can't we just have a more accurate calendar?
Silent r's are ghey.AussieReaper wrote:
Stupid February.Superior Mind wrote:
e: it's a fallacy of our shitty Gregorian calendar. What the fuck is a leap year? Why can't we just have a more accurate calendar?
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
- Superior Mind
- (not macbeth)
- +1,755|6933
I know what a leap year is, I meant what is it as in what's the deal with it.AussieReaper wrote:
Stupid February.Superior Mind wrote:
e: it's a fallacy of our shitty Gregorian calendar. What the fuck is a leap year? Why can't we just have a more accurate calendar?
If we went by a thirteen month lunar calendar, I believe we'd all be generally less confused about the cosmos.
Umm... really?Superior Mind wrote:
I know what a leap year is, I meant what is it as in what's the deal with it.AussieReaper wrote:
Stupid February.Superior Mind wrote:
e: it's a fallacy of our shitty Gregorian calendar. What the fuck is a leap year? Why can't we just have a more accurate calendar?
If we went by a thirteen month lunar calendar, I believe we'd all be generally less confused about the cosmos.
We have leap days because the rotation of the Earth around the Sun is not precisely 365 days... If we didn't have leap years, eventually you'd have winter in July. Not a terrible thing I guess, but it would confuse the shit out of people that depend on the season for their living: farmers. If they plant too early or too late, their yields will be bad.
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-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Kind of makes the "less confused about the cosmos" thing a bit ironic, no?Jay wrote:
Umm... really?Superior Mind wrote:
I know what a leap year is, I meant what is it as in what's the deal with it.AussieReaper wrote:
Stupid February.
If we went by a thirteen month lunar calendar, I believe we'd all be generally less confused about the cosmos.
We have leap days because the rotation of the Earth around the Sun is not precisely 365 days... If we didn't have leap years, eventually you'd have winter in July. Not a terrible thing I guess, but it would confuse the shit out of people that depend on the season for their living: farmers. If they plant too early or too late, their yields will be bad.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
BC
Also winter is in July.
Also winter is in July.
A lot journals and other publications are neutral on it. /shrugsSuperior Mind wrote:
Ok, for a secular institution. Maybe a Catholic school might use ad/bc
The R is silent now?FEOS wrote:
Silent r's are ghey.AussieReaper wrote:
Stupid February.Superior Mind wrote:
e: it's a fallacy of our shitty Gregorian calendar. What the fuck is a leap year? Why can't we just have a more accurate calendar?
All those years!
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I don't see how a 13 month calendar would mess anything up. I think you guys just misunderstand me.FEOS wrote:
Kind of makes the "less confused about the cosmos" thing a bit ironic, no?Jay wrote:
Umm... really?Superior Mind wrote:
I know what a leap year is, I meant what is it as in what's the deal with it.
If we went by a thirteen month lunar calendar, I believe we'd all be generally less confused about the cosmos.
We have leap days because the rotation of the Earth around the Sun is not precisely 365 days... If we didn't have leap years, eventually you'd have winter in July. Not a terrible thing I guess, but it would confuse the shit out of people that depend on the season for their living: farmers. If they plant too early or too late, their yields will be bad.
Lunar calendars are much more relavent to the human experience of time.
Not when you look at it from the agrarian perspective, which is arguably why we started keeping track of time to begin with: to normalize growing seasons. That has more to do with solar profession than lunar progression.Superior Mind wrote:
I don't see how a 13 month calendar would mess anything up. I think you guys just misunderstand me.FEOS wrote:
Kind of makes the "less confused about the cosmos" thing a bit ironic, no?Jay wrote:
Umm... really?
We have leap days because the rotation of the Earth around the Sun is not precisely 365 days... If we didn't have leap years, eventually you'd have winter in July. Not a terrible thing I guess, but it would confuse the shit out of people that depend on the season for their living: farmers. If they plant too early or too late, their yields will be bad.
Lunar calendars are much more relavent to the human experience of time.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
the moon doesnt have any bearing on the sun. The sun is important, much more so than the tides.Superior Mind wrote:
Way to contribute to the thread.Jay wrote:
Write a petition.
If you can't understand how the phases of the moon are more apparent than our position around the sun, then you must have never looked up at night.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat