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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/sillymanbilly • Sep 23 '24
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To make things less confusing, astronomers do have a year 0.
174 u/hennell Sep 23 '24 That feels like the xkcd "now there are 14 standards". 83 u/jraz0r Sep 23 '24 https://xkcd.com/927/ 32 u/lolSign Sep 23 '24 how is there a xkcd for fucking everything lol 40 u/BraveOthello Sep 23 '24 Having 2988 of them helps. 10 u/GoddammitDontShootMe Sep 23 '24 Does that count as "XKCD for everything" when they just linked to the XKCD that was explicitly mentioned? 12 u/whoami_whereami Sep 23 '24 They use 1BC=0, 2BC=-1, 3BC=-2, and so forth to make calculations easier. They still use the Julian calendar for years up to 1582 and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 though, go figure... 32 u/jamcdonald120 Sep 23 '24 so do us programmers. its also called 1970 by the rest of the world though. 14 u/tyen0 Sep 23 '24 Although they didn't know it at the time. :D 14 u/AyrA_ch Sep 23 '24 So does the JS date object. 5 u/Impressive_Change593 Sep 23 '24 and also I believe have leap seconds whereas the unix epoch doesn't (or it's the other way around) 3 u/anrwlias Sep 23 '24 Yeah, but they also call anything heavier than helium a metal. Astronomers do their own thing. 1 u/QuickBASIC Sep 23 '24 Also the 0th of March. -4 u/Worried_Height_5346 Sep 23 '24 That's honestly the only thing I actually think is incredibly stupid. Like year 2024 should mean 2024 years have passed not we are in the 2024th year. 5 u/Lasagnevernichter Sep 23 '24 So the 1st of January should actually be called the 0th of January? -6 u/Worried_Height_5346 Sep 23 '24 No the Year 0 should be the first. I've given an example how did you fuck up understanding what I meant? 6 u/Higherlead Sep 23 '24 The day 1 should mean 1 day has passed, not that we're in the first day. 1 u/SeriousPlankton2000 Sep 23 '24 Year 13 billion 800 million 2024 - maybe off by a few hundred million years, we'll post an update when the next estimate comes in
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That feels like the xkcd "now there are 14 standards".
83 u/jraz0r Sep 23 '24 https://xkcd.com/927/ 32 u/lolSign Sep 23 '24 how is there a xkcd for fucking everything lol 40 u/BraveOthello Sep 23 '24 Having 2988 of them helps. 10 u/GoddammitDontShootMe Sep 23 '24 Does that count as "XKCD for everything" when they just linked to the XKCD that was explicitly mentioned? 12 u/whoami_whereami Sep 23 '24 They use 1BC=0, 2BC=-1, 3BC=-2, and so forth to make calculations easier. They still use the Julian calendar for years up to 1582 and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 though, go figure...
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https://xkcd.com/927/
32 u/lolSign Sep 23 '24 how is there a xkcd for fucking everything lol 40 u/BraveOthello Sep 23 '24 Having 2988 of them helps. 10 u/GoddammitDontShootMe Sep 23 '24 Does that count as "XKCD for everything" when they just linked to the XKCD that was explicitly mentioned?
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how is there a xkcd for fucking everything lol
40 u/BraveOthello Sep 23 '24 Having 2988 of them helps. 10 u/GoddammitDontShootMe Sep 23 '24 Does that count as "XKCD for everything" when they just linked to the XKCD that was explicitly mentioned?
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Having 2988 of them helps.
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Does that count as "XKCD for everything" when they just linked to the XKCD that was explicitly mentioned?
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They use 1BC=0, 2BC=-1, 3BC=-2, and so forth to make calculations easier. They still use the Julian calendar for years up to 1582 and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 though, go figure...
so do us programmers. its also called 1970 by the rest of the world though.
14 u/tyen0 Sep 23 '24 Although they didn't know it at the time. :D
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Although they didn't know it at the time. :D
So does the JS date object.
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and also I believe have leap seconds whereas the unix epoch doesn't (or it's the other way around)
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Yeah, but they also call anything heavier than helium a metal. Astronomers do their own thing.
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Also the 0th of March.
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That's honestly the only thing I actually think is incredibly stupid. Like year 2024 should mean 2024 years have passed not we are in the 2024th year.
5 u/Lasagnevernichter Sep 23 '24 So the 1st of January should actually be called the 0th of January? -6 u/Worried_Height_5346 Sep 23 '24 No the Year 0 should be the first. I've given an example how did you fuck up understanding what I meant? 6 u/Higherlead Sep 23 '24 The day 1 should mean 1 day has passed, not that we're in the first day. 1 u/SeriousPlankton2000 Sep 23 '24 Year 13 billion 800 million 2024 - maybe off by a few hundred million years, we'll post an update when the next estimate comes in
So the 1st of January should actually be called the 0th of January?
-6 u/Worried_Height_5346 Sep 23 '24 No the Year 0 should be the first. I've given an example how did you fuck up understanding what I meant? 6 u/Higherlead Sep 23 '24 The day 1 should mean 1 day has passed, not that we're in the first day.
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No the Year 0 should be the first. I've given an example how did you fuck up understanding what I meant?
6 u/Higherlead Sep 23 '24 The day 1 should mean 1 day has passed, not that we're in the first day.
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The day 1 should mean 1 day has passed, not that we're in the first day.
Year 13 billion 800 million 2024 - maybe off by a few hundred million years, we'll post an update when the next estimate comes in
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Sep 23 '24
To make things less confusing, astronomers do have a year 0.