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7 points kamphey | 2 comments | | HN request time: 2.32s | source

In the past the whole world used different calendars and ways to represent time. Currently a few religions still have alternative cale dars. In the near future do you think calendars will be vastly different than now?
1. perilunar ◴[] No.44012560[source]
Not really. The Earth still revolves once a day, and goes around the Sun once a year, and the Moon still goes around the Earth once a month. We can change the way we divide these periods but the periods themselves are fundamentally physical.

Example: https://sunclock.net/#calendar

The weekends and month names/dividers are ‘artificial’, but all the other lines — the days, moon phases, the equinoxes, solstices, apsides — are natural.

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2. Ekaros ◴[] No.44020197[source]
And the reality is that there is not many actually sensible ways to divide they number of days in year. 12 is pretty much best we can do. And being highly divisible it does work very nicely... So even without moon, it is one of the better options.