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7 points kamphey | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.389s | 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.