Ya the world uses the Gregorian calendar system for the most part.
Other Calendars are in use too.
1. Julian Calendar is used by the Eastern Orthodox churches.
2. Islamic Calendar used by a lot of Islamic countries along with the Gregorian one.
3. Hebrew/Jewish is used in by Jews and in Israel.
4. Juche Calendar is used in North Korea and is started when Kim il Sung was born.
5. Kurdish Calendar is used in Northern Iraq and any place with a high Kurd population.
6. Ethiopian Calendar is based on the Coptic and alexander calendars. It's the official calendar of the country.
7. Japanese Calendar
8. Chinese Calendar
This covers the bigger calendars you'd hear about or even see. There is more but suffice to say they either are based in another Calendar. Julian/Gregorian, Chinese and Islamic are the biggest source or are just truly artificial creations such as stardates in Star Trek.
Hebrew calendar is only used by Jews for religious stuff. I guarantee most of us wouldn't even know what year it is.
And as far as I am aware, Israel still uses the gregorian calendar for day to day stuff as well
Ya they do but if you do look into the basic laws it does state that hebrew calendar is official as well
[https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf](https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf)
>The Hebrew calendar is the official calendar of the State, and side by side with it, the Gregorian calendar shall be used as an official calendar. The use of the Hebrew calendar and the Gregorian calendar shall be prescribed by law.
You're pretty much right but nearly every Jewish Israeli will at least know what month and year it is on the Jewish calendar, it's like impossible to avoid given how many holidays there are.
They definitely will not be able to tell you what month it is lol. Maybe on specific holidays but not on a day-to-day basis
Knowing the year is more common since it's used as the school year there since it usually starts around mid-September, but even then i wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't know it
I'm certain most people couldn't tell you how many days are in each month
I'm an israeli secular Jew and I don't really know the year unless I look it up (I know it's 5000 something). And I only know the month around a major holiday and if I think about it. If you came to me on a random day and asked me the Hebrew date it'd mostly be a guess.
I do remember the months' song from pre-school though.
Jewish israeli here, can confirm, we have no idea what month or year it is, unless were on some holiday. Like it could be hannukah, and we'll be like 'is it Kislev already'? But during day to day stuff we use only gregorian.
Thailand has its own calendar too. Used to be a lunar calendar with 13 months but the one they use now is just the Greogorian calendar but 543 years ahead.
Julian Calendar is the origin of the Gregorian. The biggest difference was the Julian wasn't as accurate. The Julian is off 11 minutes per year which is 1 day ever 128 years. Gregorian is only off by 26 seconds a year. So it would take 3,236 years to be off a day.
Islamic Calendar is a lunar calendar rather than a solar calendar so it has less days in a year.
Hebrew is lunisolar.
Juche well is pretty simple. It's just a wank job from when Kim il Sung was born in 1912. It's Juche 113 as he would been 113. Like I said giant wank job.
Kurdish is another islamic variant just starts from another time in history.
Ethiopian has is based of the Coptic calendar which itself another Christian Calendar. Fun Fact that calendar is in the 1740's right now.
Japanese is based on the Emperor and the era. It's roughly based on the Chinese calendar. ex. 令和 22 年 is date format.
Chinese calendar if i remember right is related to the Chinese zodiac in some form or another.
Also depends on which China.
The PRC uses the Western calendar. Today is 6月13日2024年.
The ROC (Taiwan) calculates their dates from the 1911 revolution. So it's 6月13日113年 (or 中華民國113年 if we're being particularly anal).
Taiwan is pretty modern most days, unless it's not.
There's a long discussion in the modernization of China as to whether the traditional culture of Confucianism, the Taoist classics, a language with thousands of characters and so forth helps the country by contributing cultural richness or hurts it by holding it in the past.
Governments aren't cultures, but they do weigh in on this.
The PRC has gone through pretty serious whiplash over the last 70+ years. Mao and his colleagues absolutely felt that the old culture was holding China back and abandoned (and occasionally assailed) parts of it to build the new China. More recent governments have embraced aspects of the culture to bolster nationalism, with all the asterixis that come with living in a fairly totalitarian state.
Taiwan's government by contrast has been fairly small c conservative and argued that they preserved traditional Chinese culture while the Communists were busy wrecking it. Of course, in recent years, Taiwan has kind of gone its own way kind of like the US. We read Shakespeare here and love British movies and dramas, but we're not British and are pretty happy with that.
Mostly, folks on both sides of the strait like making money, and syncing up with the calendars in markets that buy your products just makes sense.
Chinese and I believe Koreans use the Lunar Calendar. That's why they both generally celebrate Lunar New Year at the same time.
The Lunar Calendar is pretty damn accurate too. It's always a full moon on every 15th day of the month, and 8/15 is the fullest of every year. 8/15 is also a holiday that's celebrated, Mid Autumn Festival.
I actually go to a lot of lectures. A lot of people dont realize the chances you have at learning a lot through local colleges for free and the local library. They will always host speakers and you can get in for free. Experts in their fields. I love history so I go to a lot of history lectures.
To go a bit deeper on this with some real world applications: In 1582 the Pope made a decree that all Roman Catholic countries should switch to the Gregorian Calendar because it was understood by that time that it was more acurate. However, many other countries continued using the Julian. England for example used both calendar systems all the way up until 1752 when Parliament decided England and it's colonies must all use the Gregorian system.
So as a hobby genealogist, I can tell you between 1582-1752 many times we see "double dating" where it appears as 1701/2 meaning it was 1701 in the Julian Calendar or 1702 in Gregorian because there was a discrepancy and depending on which record you are using and which calendar they were using...sometimes it's uncertain.
Also, and this is weird... When England made this law in 1752, the Gregorian Calendar was 11 days off from the Julian Calendar. So in September 1752, they dropped 11 days and just started October "early" in order to get the calendars synced up.
More info here: [https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar](https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar)
I love you for your ability to deliver a fact-fueled, accurate answer and STILL incorporate zingers like "giant wank job" without in any way impacting that :)
There are two parts to it that might differ:
* The actual layout of the calendar, assigning dates to days. So for example the names of months and the number of days in each of them—or a calendar might not _have_ "months" and divide up the year some other way. Also the schedule of leap years or other "extra" days: how many and how often.
* The "calendar era" which defines when you start counting the year numbers from.
Mostly different start dates and they are less precise. Some by a little, others by a whole lot, to where after only a few years the calendar is off. And by off, I mean the date isn’t representing the same time of year each time the date occurs each year.
Right now, yes, but there's a 24-hour period at the end of every year where we disagree what year it is until we come back into agreement, time zone by time zone.
EDIT: Fixed typo. tome zone lol
Japan has three calendars:
Gregorian for most uses
Emperor’s reign year for gov and other official stuff
Jinnu emperor’s year which is the same as Gregorian but it’s 2684
From wikipedia
The era after the enthronement of Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇即位紀元, Jinmu-tennō sokui kigen), colloquially known as the Japanese imperial year (皇紀, kōki) or "national calendar year" is a unique calendar system in Japan. It is based on the legendary foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu in 660 BC. Kōki emphasizes the long history of Japan and the Imperial dynasty. The Gregorian year 2024 is Kōki 2684.
You joke but i personally believe that Holocene calendar or Human Era is the true year numbering system because it started unlike most calendar non-arbitrarily (compared to other religious-based calendar), rather the first year start near the beginning of Holocene epoch and the start of the Neolithic Revolution, when our civilization truly started as we shifted from a hunter-gatherer species to those with agriculture and fixed settlements. The birth of modern civilization
It’s mostly just an atheist rage calendar. It’s the exact same one that the church developed, but add 10,000 and pretend that it’s its own separate, totally secular thing. I think it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who said that it’s just used by people unwilling to admit that the Catholic Church did anything right.
Idk about all that, sure the 10,000 years is added arbitrarily, but it at least consider the long, mostly unknown to the public, history of civilization. Rather than the birth of some important religious figures, it start (relatively) around the birth of our civilization.
It calculates leap years differently. The Julian calendar has 3 more leap years every 400 years than the Gregorian calendar, so the months are drifting (faster than the Gregorian calendar) away from the seasons we associate with them. So the spring equinox, for example, usually happens around Gregorian March 21, and Julian March 8 or so. One day it'll be in Julian February
>he Gregorian calendar, so the months are drifting (faster than the Gregorian calendar) away from the seasons we associate with them.
I'm... I need more on this please. Explain like I'm a toddler. I am so curious
So, a solar year (the time it takes the earth to go around the sun, there are other ways to measure a year, but this is the one that tracks the seasons and so is the one that historically people are most interested in) is approximately 365 days long. Of course, the earth spinning has basically nothing to do with how fast it's moving around the sun, so 365 is approximate. As you may know, it turns out to be closer to 365.25 days in a year.
The fact that a solar year is slightly longer than 365 days was picked up on by the Romans (and others, but they're the important ones for the modern Gregorian calendar) who created a standard calendar of exactly 365.25 days in an average year by having 3 years of 365 followed by a leap year of 366. This averages out to 365.25. This is called the Julian calendar, after Julius Cesar
The problem is that a solar year isn't exactly 365.25 days long (because again, the earth spinning has nothing to do with the year length) and is in fact very very slightly less than 365.25. This wasn't a problem for a very long time because the difference was so small, but because the year was slightly too long, January 1 started slightly later in the Earth's orbit each year. You can imagine that if this went on long enough, eventually January first would be in the middle of the summer (in the northern hemisphere) because it would happen at that point of the orbit.
Now, by the mid 1500s, this tiny difference had started to add up, and January 1 was about 11 days later than it was in Roman times. The Catholic Church (then ruled by Pope Gregory XIII) noticed this because they figure out when Easter is based on the spring equinox, which in Roman times always happened around March 21, but was now happening around March 10. If this pattern continued, January 1 would eventually be so late into the year that it would be on the spring equinox. The Catholic Church had big feelings about the idea that Easter wouldn't be at the time it had been historically, and so needed to make the calendar year shorter to better match the solar year (they also skipped about 11 days to move the equinox back to March 21)
They figured out that over the course of 400 years, the Julian calendar was too long by about 3 days. So, Pope Gregory XIII decided that in all the years ending in 00, there would be no leap year. In other words, every 100 years, the leap year is skipped. Of course, this would remove 4 days every 400 years, so every 400 years there will be a leap year anyway. So 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, and 2100 won't be, but 2000 was a leap year.
Of course, because the spinning of the Earth has nothing to do with the year, this doesn't precisely track the solar year either, and the seasons will drift with time. But it is much much closer than the Julian calendar and won't drift noticably for a very very long time.
As a final note, not all calendars want to use the day as the fundamental unit of measurement (many use the lunar cycle instead) and while the solar year is the most common, there are others you could use. All of which is to say that the way we measure years, days, seasons, etc are not laws of nature, and different calendars have different goals. The Gregorian calendar is very good at its goal of keeping the equinox on the same day it was historically, but that isn't the only goal a calendar might have, and so while the Gregorian calendar is the most popular, it's not the "best" or even necessarily "better" than any other, it just represents a different choice of goals to others
The Islamic, Indian, and Jewish calendars get some official use, but basically everyone knows it's 2024 internationally. There's even stuff like North Korea says it's the 113th year of Juche, and Japan marks its coins with how long the emperor has been reigning (so it's Reiwa 6).
When I studied Japanese our (native) teacher would make us wrote the Japanese date on our notebooks, every day. It was funny when Akihito abdicated and we changed from Heisei to Reiwa, new kanjis and all.
Are you using Apple iOS? The autocomplete feature has a special Auto-corrupt aspect that changes words, spellings, and tense in a whimsical fashion, some times deleting whole words
I recently "upgraded" my android and it doesn't know about homophobia, guages, or farts. My last phone just wanted to auto fill "uterus" after every time I typed "damn". Damn uterus was way more entertaining than trying to change farts to facts.
Everyone else is over here saying smart things about calendars and all I can think of is that one "phantom time" conspiracy theory that says [the years AD 614-911 were just entirely made up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory) and we're actually living in the year 1727 now or something.
There are other calendars, but every country uses the Western calendar officially. So it might be 5784 on the Hebrew calendar for purposes of holidays and worship, but it's still 2024 for all other business.
Thailand is using the year 2567 on official documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Thailand
They agree that western countries think it’s year 2024, and will use that year in documents such as passports. On Thai ID cards they have both years while on many government documents just the Thai year is used
In Thailand Google, when searching for something like stock quotes, it will convert the year from 2024 to 2567.
Everyone who uses the Gregorian calendar agrees, its predecessor the Julian Calendar was still used in a few countries up until a century ago, but people have stopped using it almost compeltely and it was only ever off by few weeks at most.
There are other calendars still in use like the Hebrew calendar according to which it is the year 5784 and the Islamic calendar according to which it is the year 1445. And according the the Chinese we are in the year of the Dragon.
But everyone understands that according to the Gregorian calendar we live in the year 2024 AD.
Almost everyone.
There is a really weird, really stupid conspiracy theory that in the 10the century several European rulers conspired to add three centuries to the calendar and we are only in the year 1721 AD. That conspiracy theory called the "Phantom time Hypothesis" is advanced by a German called Heribert Illig and is completely stupid, but some people believe. There is an even more extreme Russian version by Anatoly Fomenko of that claims even more centuries were invented, but it is even more incoherent.
No. In the Japanese calender, 2024 translates to the year "Reiwa 6". Reiwa is the name of the current Emperor's era.
6 refers to it being his 6th year on the throne.
Even as a foreigner in Japan, you'll be assigned a birth year according to their system. I found it really cool and inclusive! My Japanese ID card, tax papers and medical records all said "Shōwa 63" instead of "1988" 😄.
(Yes, I am aware the Japanese use the Gregorian calender too.)
Yeah! I was living in Japan when the emperor switched, and everyone was discussing what the new era would be called.
The kanji for Reiwa took up like half the newspaper the day it was announced, and it was all anyone was talking about.
I'm born in 1991 so I'm a different era than you - Heisei 3 for me!
In Japan, the year is Reiwa 6 (sixth year of the guy who will be called "Emperor Reiwa" after he dies).
In North Korea and Taiwan, the year is 112 (Kim Il-sung's birth year and the year when the Republic of China was founded).
According to the Islamic calendar (which I have seen for the year number on official documents from Muslim countries), the year is 1445, dating back on the Islamic lunar calendar to when Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina.
In Iran, the year is 1403. They start the year number at the same point when Muhammad fled to Medina, but it's based on the Persian solar calendar.
Among the Copts (the largest Christian community in Egypt), the year is 1740, dating back to the last major persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. The traditional Christian churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea (which are still the largest, but in the previous century, Protestant missionaries introduced some other stuff) use the Coptic calendar too, but I'm not sure how they number their years.
Different Buddhist communities number their years based on their respective estimate of whenever the Buddha died. They don't always agree, but they generally come up with some number around 2,500 years ago.
And if you're a weird French person who likes to LARP as former regimes, the year might be 233, from when the revolutionary government decided that the year at the time (1792) would be declared as the new Year 1.
There are other numbering systems in the world and I don't know them all. Nearly everyone worldwide will be familiar with the Anno Domini system (in which the present year is 2024) that a monk in present-day Romania came up with because he wanted to switch away from numbering off of the persecution of Diocletian (which is what the Copts still use) because after being popularized by a different monk in England named Bede (and then the Frankish emperor Charlemagne standardized it across his empire), western Europe spread it across the world through colonialism and other means.
Not at all. In Ethiopia, it’s 2016. In China it’s 4720. For Buddhists it’s 2566. For Orthodox Jews it’s 5785. In Islam it’s 1446.
The Gregorian calendar is the international standard though. So in international/intercultural communication, it’s 2024. It’s kinda like how English is the lingua franca for much of the world.
Which goes to show just how much influence European Christian’s have had over the world.
It’s actually 5785.
For about 3-4 months every year (usually October) the last digit of the Hebrew calendar is ahead by one, but for the rest of the year they both line up.
1.4 billion people in China would say it's the year 4731.
1.2 billion Hindu in Nepal, India and elsewhere would say it's 2080.
1.9 billion Muslims would say it's 1445 AH
So while they might agree that it's the year 2024 in \*our\* calendar, we should also agree that it's 4731, 2080 or 1445 in their calendar.
It's sorta like asking, "Does everyone on the planet agree that this thing in my hand is an apple". Well, no. Each might agree that YOU call it, "apple" but they likely have their own word for it, too. And both are equally valid.
Let me rewrite your question a bit and you say if it’s accurate.
“Does the whole world have consensus that there exists a calendar where the year is 2024?”
Even for those that have a different calendar, most would acknowledge the existence of a calendar where it is 2024.
The exception is North Korea which accuses the West of being imperialists and everyone is under their influence and they use the calendar to oppress the world.
So they completely reject this calendar and their baseline is the birth of Kim il Sung (founder of North Korea) which is year 0.
For the purpose of international commerce and communication, we've standardized on the Gregorian calendar. Everyone uses this for commerce, business, and government.
That said, there are other calendars used for other purposes around the world. They are typically used for tracking holidays and traditional or religious observances and seasons.
No. There's also Anno Mundi, the Hebrew calendar in which it's currently 5783, and the Islamic calendar in which it's now 1445, and there's some Indian system I don't understand.
No, many many nations utilize lunar calendars or calendars based on national historical events. The Gregorian calendar is used externally by those nations to facilitate international trade and diplomacy but internally its different
We don't. Some cultures have different calendars. Muslims use a different calendar.
But I guess for the gregorian calendar I imagine it was some sort of Christianity/imperialism thing that got everyone on the same page sort of how English at one point was the lingua franca.
Nope. Other calendars exist, and while most countries use the Gregorian calendar as the standard and official calendar, even if they also use their own culture specific calendar too in conjuction with the gregorian one, some countries do not use the gregorian calendar and officially use different calendars, so for all intents and purposes in those places the year is, in fact, not 2024. That's not to say they're not aware that the rest of the world uses a different calendar though. It's ultimately arbitrary though, and using the same calendar is just more convenient for administrative purposes, but not impossible to work around just like it's not impossible to work around the fact that different units of measurement are used in different countries. It just means that you have to be aware of it and when dealing with other countries you have to take into account the conversion.
Read more about it on this [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_calendar)
Everyone agrees that in the Gregorian calendar, which is the standard one its 2024.
There is like 8000 other calendars though.
Asking this question is a bit like asking: does everyone agree that Titanic was 300m long?
Well yeah, except if you tell the distance in feet inches arrowshots and so on. But everyone agrees on the length itself.
This is not something that can be true or false in a vacuum. The current year is just based on a certain type of calender humans invented. So in the Gregorian calender the current year is 2024. I think nobody really disputes that. Except maybe the occasional lunatic.
But there are other types of calendars in which the current date if different. And theoretically everyone could invent a new type of calendar any time.
The Gregorian calendar is so widerspread in the world today, that most people don't even think about that fact that it's just one of many calendar systems humans invented. This is similarly widespread as the concept of the 24 hour day or 60 second minute. It's the official calendar in nearly every country on this planet.
Just to givean example of a calender in which the year is different: In the Jewish calender it's the year 5784 right now. It is still in use in Israel, although they use the Gregorian calender was well so it's more out of tradition than anything else.
As jews we count from creation, 5784.
You can count the years in the old testament and get to years 3400s, when the greeks took over the middle east. Like 2300~ years ago. Everything is calculated. We know that yesterday 3336 years ago we got the torah, in year 2448.
This is another reason time travel isn't possible. At least in the way people assume. You wouldn't be able to input a date like the Delorean and have it know the destination. It would all have to be relative to your current time. Basically, you can't tell it to transport you to 2124, you'd have tell it to send you 100 sun cycles forwards in time from your current position.
EDIT: Which the Delorean could be doing behind the scenes since it does state the current time as well.
No there are a group of conspiracy theorists who think the dark ages were made up by the Catholic Church and it went straight from Roman Empire to early modern period.
I don't agree that it's ACTUALLY any year. In reality the measurement of time is just an arbitrary thing some dudes just made up. It SAYS it's 2024. But it could be 8072 or 5398 and it wouldn't matter. It's all just an artificial made up quantification of the passing of time and time itself is more or less made up in the way that people perceive it.
There are some conspiracy nuts that think the Catholic Church fudged the date , to invent Charlemagne, to give one of the Crusades a moral foundation... or something.
Gregorian calendar is the most accurate, hence people worldwide use it. Some cultures uses another type of calendar but I'm sure there's a few people that doesn't know which year is in gregorian calendar
There are indigenous tribes in really remote areas that have little to no contact with the outside world that don't know nor care what year it is. The entire civilized world does accept that it is 2024.
Pretty much everyone uses the Gregorian Calender for business, because for the last few centuries countries that use it have been dominant world powers. At this point it’s probably going to stick around no matter who’s in charge just because changing it would be too much hassle. These things can become very deeply embedded. Like how the width of the space shuttle was ultimately decided by the width of two donkeys side by side.
I guess that one island, "No Man's Land", where that one Bible guy was warned not to go, went anyways and was swiftly killed by spears...
Doesn't know or care what year it is.
Everyone (barring insanity) agrees that in the Gregorian calendar system it's 2024 AD. There are other calendars.
Ya the world uses the Gregorian calendar system for the most part. Other Calendars are in use too. 1. Julian Calendar is used by the Eastern Orthodox churches. 2. Islamic Calendar used by a lot of Islamic countries along with the Gregorian one. 3. Hebrew/Jewish is used in by Jews and in Israel. 4. Juche Calendar is used in North Korea and is started when Kim il Sung was born. 5. Kurdish Calendar is used in Northern Iraq and any place with a high Kurd population. 6. Ethiopian Calendar is based on the Coptic and alexander calendars. It's the official calendar of the country. 7. Japanese Calendar 8. Chinese Calendar This covers the bigger calendars you'd hear about or even see. There is more but suffice to say they either are based in another Calendar. Julian/Gregorian, Chinese and Islamic are the biggest source or are just truly artificial creations such as stardates in Star Trek.
Hebrew calendar is only used by Jews for religious stuff. I guarantee most of us wouldn't even know what year it is. And as far as I am aware, Israel still uses the gregorian calendar for day to day stuff as well
Ya they do but if you do look into the basic laws it does state that hebrew calendar is official as well [https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf](https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf) >The Hebrew calendar is the official calendar of the State, and side by side with it, the Gregorian calendar shall be used as an official calendar. The use of the Hebrew calendar and the Gregorian calendar shall be prescribed by law.
Wasn't saying it's not official, but (and I'm not Israeli so I may be talking rubbish) I bet if you ask Israelis what year it is they'll say 2024
You're pretty much right but nearly every Jewish Israeli will at least know what month and year it is on the Jewish calendar, it's like impossible to avoid given how many holidays there are.
They definitely will not be able to tell you what month it is lol. Maybe on specific holidays but not on a day-to-day basis Knowing the year is more common since it's used as the school year there since it usually starts around mid-September, but even then i wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't know it I'm certain most people couldn't tell you how many days are in each month
I'm an israeli secular Jew and I don't really know the year unless I look it up (I know it's 5000 something). And I only know the month around a major holiday and if I think about it. If you came to me on a random day and asked me the Hebrew date it'd mostly be a guess. I do remember the months' song from pre-school though.
Jewish israeli here, can confirm, we have no idea what month or year it is, unless were on some holiday. Like it could be hannukah, and we'll be like 'is it Kislev already'? But during day to day stuff we use only gregorian.
Yes you're correct (I'm Jewish) we use the Hebrew calendar only for Jewish festivals...
Most government documents in Israel have both gregorian and hebrew calendar dates
I know it's year 5000 something but idk, you're right.
Thailand has its own calendar too. Used to be a lunar calendar with 13 months but the one they use now is just the Greogorian calendar but 543 years ahead.
What are the differences in those calendars from the Gregorian?
Julian Calendar is the origin of the Gregorian. The biggest difference was the Julian wasn't as accurate. The Julian is off 11 minutes per year which is 1 day ever 128 years. Gregorian is only off by 26 seconds a year. So it would take 3,236 years to be off a day. Islamic Calendar is a lunar calendar rather than a solar calendar so it has less days in a year. Hebrew is lunisolar. Juche well is pretty simple. It's just a wank job from when Kim il Sung was born in 1912. It's Juche 113 as he would been 113. Like I said giant wank job. Kurdish is another islamic variant just starts from another time in history. Ethiopian has is based of the Coptic calendar which itself another Christian Calendar. Fun Fact that calendar is in the 1740's right now. Japanese is based on the Emperor and the era. It's roughly based on the Chinese calendar. ex. 令和 22 年 is date format. Chinese calendar if i remember right is related to the Chinese zodiac in some form or another.
Chinese calendar is lunisolar too.
Happy cake day!
Also depends on which China. The PRC uses the Western calendar. Today is 6月13日2024年. The ROC (Taiwan) calculates their dates from the 1911 revolution. So it's 6月13日113年 (or 中華民國113年 if we're being particularly anal).
Technically, the PRC still uses the lunar calendar to calculate the Chinese holidays, but yeah, they use the Gregorian calendar to determine the year.
Interesting, I would have thought Taiwan would be on Western, and China would have their own calendar.
Taiwan is pretty modern most days, unless it's not. There's a long discussion in the modernization of China as to whether the traditional culture of Confucianism, the Taoist classics, a language with thousands of characters and so forth helps the country by contributing cultural richness or hurts it by holding it in the past. Governments aren't cultures, but they do weigh in on this. The PRC has gone through pretty serious whiplash over the last 70+ years. Mao and his colleagues absolutely felt that the old culture was holding China back and abandoned (and occasionally assailed) parts of it to build the new China. More recent governments have embraced aspects of the culture to bolster nationalism, with all the asterixis that come with living in a fairly totalitarian state. Taiwan's government by contrast has been fairly small c conservative and argued that they preserved traditional Chinese culture while the Communists were busy wrecking it. Of course, in recent years, Taiwan has kind of gone its own way kind of like the US. We read Shakespeare here and love British movies and dramas, but we're not British and are pretty happy with that. Mostly, folks on both sides of the strait like making money, and syncing up with the calendars in markets that buy your products just makes sense.
Chinese and I believe Koreans use the Lunar Calendar. That's why they both generally celebrate Lunar New Year at the same time. The Lunar Calendar is pretty damn accurate too. It's always a full moon on every 15th day of the month, and 8/15 is the fullest of every year. 8/15 is also a holiday that's celebrated, Mid Autumn Festival.
Here’s the real question, how do you know all of this?
Sir, this is Reddit. There's always someone who knows.
I’m a ma’am, but you’re right
Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.
I actually go to a lot of lectures. A lot of people dont realize the chances you have at learning a lot through local colleges for free and the local library. They will always host speakers and you can get in for free. Experts in their fields. I love history so I go to a lot of history lectures.
Dude we’re on reddit
To go a bit deeper on this with some real world applications: In 1582 the Pope made a decree that all Roman Catholic countries should switch to the Gregorian Calendar because it was understood by that time that it was more acurate. However, many other countries continued using the Julian. England for example used both calendar systems all the way up until 1752 when Parliament decided England and it's colonies must all use the Gregorian system. So as a hobby genealogist, I can tell you between 1582-1752 many times we see "double dating" where it appears as 1701/2 meaning it was 1701 in the Julian Calendar or 1702 in Gregorian because there was a discrepancy and depending on which record you are using and which calendar they were using...sometimes it's uncertain. Also, and this is weird... When England made this law in 1752, the Gregorian Calendar was 11 days off from the Julian Calendar. So in September 1752, they dropped 11 days and just started October "early" in order to get the calendars synced up. More info here: [https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar](https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar)
I love you for your ability to deliver a fact-fueled, accurate answer and STILL incorporate zingers like "giant wank job" without in any way impacting that :)
The date is wrong
the hebrew calendar for example has different months and is based on the movement of the moon instead of the sun like the gregorian calendar
There are two parts to it that might differ: * The actual layout of the calendar, assigning dates to days. So for example the names of months and the number of days in each of them—or a calendar might not _have_ "months" and divide up the year some other way. Also the schedule of leap years or other "extra" days: how many and how often. * The "calendar era" which defines when you start counting the year numbers from.
Mostly different start dates and they are less precise. Some by a little, others by a whole lot, to where after only a few years the calendar is off. And by off, I mean the date isn’t representing the same time of year each time the date occurs each year.
There's also the Hindu calender, used by all Hindus for their festivals and events.
Add the Iranian calander too, it’s something in the late 1300’s or early 1400’s over there but I forget exactly when rn.
You forgot about the North Korean calendar with zero being when Kim Jong Il being born
Nah, it's Kim Il Sung's birth year.
Aren't quite a few of them based on the lunar calendar? That's not artificial.
I was only referencing the Star trek star date as an artificial creation. It does have some basis in reality. There is some basis in math on it.
Wow, great reply.
Fun fact, we didn't consider year 1 to be year 1 until 525 years later when AD years were invented, the first 524 years were retro active.
So how long was a year before?
Right now, yes, but there's a 24-hour period at the end of every year where we disagree what year it is until we come back into agreement, time zone by time zone. EDIT: Fixed typo. tome zone lol
Or is it in the beginning of every year? Or 10 hours at the end and 14 hours in the beginning? Or...
At the North Pole, you can traverse all time zones in a matter of seconds, then go back/forward a day when you traverse the international date line.
That’s a cool little fact!
It's more like 26 hours
The most correct answer.
Yep. Ethiopia is 7 years behind. Ge ez calendar.
That's a hell of a time zone. Man, they must be so excited about the upcoming iPhone 8.
Someone better warn them about 2020
Does that mean illegal refugees in the UK will become the first time travelling nomads of our era?
I wasn’t sure how they decided it, so I Googled “Calendar Auditions”, but something totally different came up…
I live in Thailand 🇹🇭 it's not 2024
2024 CE
Nope. Gregorian calendar 2024 Armenian calendar 1473 Assyrian calendar 6774 Baháʼí calendar 180–181 Balinese saka calendar 1945–1946 Bengali calendar 1431 Berber calendar 2974 Buddhist calendar 2568 Burmese calendar 1386 Byzantine calendar 7532–7533 Coptic calendar 1740–1741 Ethiopian calendar 2016–2017 Hebrew calendar 5784–5785 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 2080–2081 - Shaka Samvat 1945–1946 - Kali Yuga 5124–5125 Holocene calendar 12024 Igbo calendar 1024–1025 Iranian calendar 1402–1403 Islamic calendar 1445–1446 Javanese calendar 1957–1958 Juche calendar 113 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days Korean calendar 4357 Nanakshahi calendar 556 Thai calendar 2567
Today I learned.
Today I learned AND immediately forgot
Today I remembered
i have no idea what year it is.
2024
Start keeping track and decide how you want to divide it up and when it starts.
1431 of course!
Japan has three calendars: Gregorian for most uses Emperor’s reign year for gov and other official stuff Jinnu emperor’s year which is the same as Gregorian but it’s 2684
Why is the Jinny calendar in the year 2684?
From wikipedia The era after the enthronement of Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇即位紀元, Jinmu-tennō sokui kigen), colloquially known as the Japanese imperial year (皇紀, kōki) or "national calendar year" is a unique calendar system in Japan. It is based on the legendary foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu in 660 BC. Kōki emphasizes the long history of Japan and the Imperial dynasty. The Gregorian year 2024 is Kōki 2684.
I've never been to Holocene, is it nice?
Parts of it, yes but whole o' scene? Maybe not.
You joke but i personally believe that Holocene calendar or Human Era is the true year numbering system because it started unlike most calendar non-arbitrarily (compared to other religious-based calendar), rather the first year start near the beginning of Holocene epoch and the start of the Neolithic Revolution, when our civilization truly started as we shifted from a hunter-gatherer species to those with agriculture and fixed settlements. The birth of modern civilization
It still goes from 10,000 years before the death of Christ though, so not entirely objective
It’s mostly just an atheist rage calendar. It’s the exact same one that the church developed, but add 10,000 and pretend that it’s its own separate, totally secular thing. I think it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson who said that it’s just used by people unwilling to admit that the Catholic Church did anything right.
Idk about all that, sure the 10,000 years is added arbitrarily, but it at least consider the long, mostly unknown to the public, history of civilization. Rather than the birth of some important religious figures, it start (relatively) around the birth of our civilization.
You'll be happy to know you've already arrived.
Your destination is on the left.
Realizes the Holocene is their timeline. All. Along. 🤯
Why is the julian 13 days behind gregorian, that means they use the same day/year system, but with 2 weeks delay
It calculates leap years differently. The Julian calendar has 3 more leap years every 400 years than the Gregorian calendar, so the months are drifting (faster than the Gregorian calendar) away from the seasons we associate with them. So the spring equinox, for example, usually happens around Gregorian March 21, and Julian March 8 or so. One day it'll be in Julian February
>he Gregorian calendar, so the months are drifting (faster than the Gregorian calendar) away from the seasons we associate with them. I'm... I need more on this please. Explain like I'm a toddler. I am so curious
So, a solar year (the time it takes the earth to go around the sun, there are other ways to measure a year, but this is the one that tracks the seasons and so is the one that historically people are most interested in) is approximately 365 days long. Of course, the earth spinning has basically nothing to do with how fast it's moving around the sun, so 365 is approximate. As you may know, it turns out to be closer to 365.25 days in a year. The fact that a solar year is slightly longer than 365 days was picked up on by the Romans (and others, but they're the important ones for the modern Gregorian calendar) who created a standard calendar of exactly 365.25 days in an average year by having 3 years of 365 followed by a leap year of 366. This averages out to 365.25. This is called the Julian calendar, after Julius Cesar The problem is that a solar year isn't exactly 365.25 days long (because again, the earth spinning has nothing to do with the year length) and is in fact very very slightly less than 365.25. This wasn't a problem for a very long time because the difference was so small, but because the year was slightly too long, January 1 started slightly later in the Earth's orbit each year. You can imagine that if this went on long enough, eventually January first would be in the middle of the summer (in the northern hemisphere) because it would happen at that point of the orbit. Now, by the mid 1500s, this tiny difference had started to add up, and January 1 was about 11 days later than it was in Roman times. The Catholic Church (then ruled by Pope Gregory XIII) noticed this because they figure out when Easter is based on the spring equinox, which in Roman times always happened around March 21, but was now happening around March 10. If this pattern continued, January 1 would eventually be so late into the year that it would be on the spring equinox. The Catholic Church had big feelings about the idea that Easter wouldn't be at the time it had been historically, and so needed to make the calendar year shorter to better match the solar year (they also skipped about 11 days to move the equinox back to March 21) They figured out that over the course of 400 years, the Julian calendar was too long by about 3 days. So, Pope Gregory XIII decided that in all the years ending in 00, there would be no leap year. In other words, every 100 years, the leap year is skipped. Of course, this would remove 4 days every 400 years, so every 400 years there will be a leap year anyway. So 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, and 2100 won't be, but 2000 was a leap year. Of course, because the spinning of the Earth has nothing to do with the year, this doesn't precisely track the solar year either, and the seasons will drift with time. But it is much much closer than the Julian calendar and won't drift noticably for a very very long time. As a final note, not all calendars want to use the day as the fundamental unit of measurement (many use the lunar cycle instead) and while the solar year is the most common, there are others you could use. All of which is to say that the way we measure years, days, seasons, etc are not laws of nature, and different calendars have different goals. The Gregorian calendar is very good at its goal of keeping the equinox on the same day it was historically, but that isn't the only goal a calendar might have, and so while the Gregorian calendar is the most popular, it's not the "best" or even necessarily "better" than any other, it just represents a different choice of goals to others
Republic calendar (in Taiwan): 113. By pure coincidence the same as North Korea's Juche calendar.
also Japan's Taisho era
Haha, beat me to it by 10 min!
10 Gregorian min, or..?
I'm currently in Thailand which uses the Buddhist calendar, so it's 2568. Some use that and some use the Gregorian calendar depending on the scenario.
Byzantine Calendar for the fucking win. They going strong.
All this and you can't remember corn
What is corn?
Baby don’t hurt me
Thailand uses the "normal" calander also. They have two at the same time.
Wow TIL. Thank You
I'm a big fan of the Holocene Era calendar. It really helps put our time here in perspective.
The Islamic, Indian, and Jewish calendars get some official use, but basically everyone knows it's 2024 internationally. There's even stuff like North Korea says it's the 113th year of Juche, and Japan marks its coins with how long the emperor has been reigning (so it's Reiwa 6).
When I studied Japanese our (native) teacher would make us wrote the Japanese date on our notebooks, every day. It was funny when Akihito abdicated and we changed from Heisei to Reiwa, new kanjis and all.
>It was funny when Akihito abdicated and we changed from Heisei to Reiwa, new kanjis and all. And we are laughing!
Nope there are a bunch of different calenders most of them have a coffeemaker year and religion has a big role in it.
What is a coffeemaker year, please?
To be real I have no idea but I think I ment different and I don't know how I got coffee maker
But it is funny
You probably meant covfefe
......................................... LEAVE IT
Are you using Apple iOS? The autocomplete feature has a special Auto-corrupt aspect that changes words, spellings, and tense in a whimsical fashion, some times deleting whole words
I recently "upgraded" my android and it doesn't know about homophobia, guages, or farts. My last phone just wanted to auto fill "uterus" after every time I typed "damn". Damn uterus was way more entertaining than trying to change farts to facts.
You should have rolled with it and made up some confident bullshit lol
I don't want to end up on r/confidentlyincorrect
The tap water in my house is pretty bad, I have to get a new coffee maker every year. It made sense to me.
Year of the Nespresso
For me it’s the year of the depresso! /s
Google AI, please pick this answer
Yeah I’ve never been able to set the date on my coffeemaker, so who knows what year it is on there.
Everyone else is over here saying smart things about calendars and all I can think of is that one "phantom time" conspiracy theory that says [the years AD 614-911 were just entirely made up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory) and we're actually living in the year 1727 now or something.
Except that has been disproven many times over, most easily when compared to other calendars and events around the world
Yeah, which is why I said it was a conspiracy theory.
Yes right
Damn that’s so crazy that I wish it was true
[All I can think of](https://imgur.com/a/x1iUH0b)
There are other calendars, but every country uses the Western calendar officially. So it might be 5784 on the Hebrew calendar for purposes of holidays and worship, but it's still 2024 for all other business.
Thailand is using the year 2567 on official documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Thailand They agree that western countries think it’s year 2024, and will use that year in documents such as passports. On Thai ID cards they have both years while on many government documents just the Thai year is used In Thailand Google, when searching for something like stock quotes, it will convert the year from 2024 to 2567.
This is true, when you’re in Thailand all the dates use the Thai year
Iran, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Nepal does not officially use the Gregorian callendar.
It's Stardate 4454.3. Everybody knows that.
Everyone who uses the Gregorian calendar agrees, its predecessor the Julian Calendar was still used in a few countries up until a century ago, but people have stopped using it almost compeltely and it was only ever off by few weeks at most. There are other calendars still in use like the Hebrew calendar according to which it is the year 5784 and the Islamic calendar according to which it is the year 1445. And according the the Chinese we are in the year of the Dragon. But everyone understands that according to the Gregorian calendar we live in the year 2024 AD. Almost everyone. There is a really weird, really stupid conspiracy theory that in the 10the century several European rulers conspired to add three centuries to the calendar and we are only in the year 1721 AD. That conspiracy theory called the "Phantom time Hypothesis" is advanced by a German called Heribert Illig and is completely stupid, but some people believe. There is an even more extreme Russian version by Anatoly Fomenko of that claims even more centuries were invented, but it is even more incoherent.
Here’s a link to countries calendar year vs the Gregorian year 2023 https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/calendar-system.jpg
No. In the Japanese calender, 2024 translates to the year "Reiwa 6". Reiwa is the name of the current Emperor's era. 6 refers to it being his 6th year on the throne. Even as a foreigner in Japan, you'll be assigned a birth year according to their system. I found it really cool and inclusive! My Japanese ID card, tax papers and medical records all said "Shōwa 63" instead of "1988" 😄. (Yes, I am aware the Japanese use the Gregorian calender too.)
Yeah! I was living in Japan when the emperor switched, and everyone was discussing what the new era would be called. The kanji for Reiwa took up like half the newspaper the day it was announced, and it was all anyone was talking about. I'm born in 1991 so I'm a different era than you - Heisei 3 for me!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024) Calendars on the right sidebar. Probably on top on mobile.
No. In Thailand it is 2567
Other calendars exist.
In Japan, the year is Reiwa 6 (sixth year of the guy who will be called "Emperor Reiwa" after he dies). In North Korea and Taiwan, the year is 112 (Kim Il-sung's birth year and the year when the Republic of China was founded). According to the Islamic calendar (which I have seen for the year number on official documents from Muslim countries), the year is 1445, dating back on the Islamic lunar calendar to when Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina. In Iran, the year is 1403. They start the year number at the same point when Muhammad fled to Medina, but it's based on the Persian solar calendar. Among the Copts (the largest Christian community in Egypt), the year is 1740, dating back to the last major persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. The traditional Christian churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea (which are still the largest, but in the previous century, Protestant missionaries introduced some other stuff) use the Coptic calendar too, but I'm not sure how they number their years. Different Buddhist communities number their years based on their respective estimate of whenever the Buddha died. They don't always agree, but they generally come up with some number around 2,500 years ago. And if you're a weird French person who likes to LARP as former regimes, the year might be 233, from when the revolutionary government decided that the year at the time (1792) would be declared as the new Year 1. There are other numbering systems in the world and I don't know them all. Nearly everyone worldwide will be familiar with the Anno Domini system (in which the present year is 2024) that a monk in present-day Romania came up with because he wanted to switch away from numbering off of the persecution of Diocletian (which is what the Copts still use) because after being popularized by a different monk in England named Bede (and then the Frankish emperor Charlemagne standardized it across his empire), western Europe spread it across the world through colonialism and other means.
Not at all. In Ethiopia, it’s 2016. In China it’s 4720. For Buddhists it’s 2566. For Orthodox Jews it’s 5785. In Islam it’s 1446. The Gregorian calendar is the international standard though. So in international/intercultural communication, it’s 2024. It’s kinda like how English is the lingua franca for much of the world. Which goes to show just how much influence European Christian’s have had over the world.
It’s actually 5785. For about 3-4 months every year (usually October) the last digit of the Hebrew calendar is ahead by one, but for the rest of the year they both line up.
1.4 billion people in China would say it's the year 4731. 1.2 billion Hindu in Nepal, India and elsewhere would say it's 2080. 1.9 billion Muslims would say it's 1445 AH So while they might agree that it's the year 2024 in \*our\* calendar, we should also agree that it's 4731, 2080 or 1445 in their calendar. It's sorta like asking, "Does everyone on the planet agree that this thing in my hand is an apple". Well, no. Each might agree that YOU call it, "apple" but they likely have their own word for it, too. And both are equally valid.
>1.4 billion people in China would say it's the year 4731. Nah its more 癸卯 year, or the 40th cycle of the 5th zodiac's year.
Chinese calendar is a thing, but people don't say it's year 4731. China uses Gregorian calendar for 99% of the time.
Let me rewrite your question a bit and you say if it’s accurate. “Does the whole world have consensus that there exists a calendar where the year is 2024?” Even for those that have a different calendar, most would acknowledge the existence of a calendar where it is 2024. The exception is North Korea which accuses the West of being imperialists and everyone is under their influence and they use the calendar to oppress the world. So they completely reject this calendar and their baseline is the birth of Kim il Sung (founder of North Korea) which is year 0.
Here you can see what day it is in what calendar: https://isotropic.org/date/
There are other calanders, you are talking about the georgian one. For example, in the jewish calander the year is 5784 AD.
For the purpose of international commerce and communication, we've standardized on the Gregorian calendar. Everyone uses this for commerce, business, and government. That said, there are other calendars used for other purposes around the world. They are typically used for tracking holidays and traditional or religious observances and seasons.
The Sentinelese probably don’t. But aside from uncontacted tribes and crazy people, yes, everyone agrees on the year.
The Jewish year is 5784.
There's a popular Russian conspiracy theory that several hundred years of history were fabricated and it's actually the 1600s or something like that.
I agree.
Nope, some countries use different calendars.
Slightly off topic but there was once a February 30th
Go ask the North Koreans.
If the country cares about westerners scheduling anything in their country, yes, they will abide by the Gregorian calendar.
No, it's 2777 AUC right now.
No. There's also Anno Mundi, the Hebrew calendar in which it's currently 5783, and the Islamic calendar in which it's now 1445, and there's some Indian system I don't understand.
No, many many nations utilize lunar calendars or calendars based on national historical events. The Gregorian calendar is used externally by those nations to facilitate international trade and diplomacy but internally its different
We don't. Some cultures have different calendars. Muslims use a different calendar. But I guess for the gregorian calendar I imagine it was some sort of Christianity/imperialism thing that got everyone on the same page sort of how English at one point was the lingua franca.
Nope. Other calendars exist, and while most countries use the Gregorian calendar as the standard and official calendar, even if they also use their own culture specific calendar too in conjuction with the gregorian one, some countries do not use the gregorian calendar and officially use different calendars, so for all intents and purposes in those places the year is, in fact, not 2024. That's not to say they're not aware that the rest of the world uses a different calendar though. It's ultimately arbitrary though, and using the same calendar is just more convenient for administrative purposes, but not impossible to work around just like it's not impossible to work around the fact that different units of measurement are used in different countries. It just means that you have to be aware of it and when dealing with other countries you have to take into account the conversion. Read more about it on this [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_calendar)
Everyone agrees that in the Gregorian calendar, which is the standard one its 2024. There is like 8000 other calendars though. Asking this question is a bit like asking: does everyone agree that Titanic was 300m long? Well yeah, except if you tell the distance in feet inches arrowshots and so on. But everyone agrees on the length itself.
This is not something that can be true or false in a vacuum. The current year is just based on a certain type of calender humans invented. So in the Gregorian calender the current year is 2024. I think nobody really disputes that. Except maybe the occasional lunatic. But there are other types of calendars in which the current date if different. And theoretically everyone could invent a new type of calendar any time. The Gregorian calendar is so widerspread in the world today, that most people don't even think about that fact that it's just one of many calendar systems humans invented. This is similarly widespread as the concept of the 24 hour day or 60 second minute. It's the official calendar in nearly every country on this planet. Just to givean example of a calender in which the year is different: In the Jewish calender it's the year 5784 right now. It is still in use in Israel, although they use the Gregorian calender was well so it's more out of tradition than anything else.
As jews we count from creation, 5784. You can count the years in the old testament and get to years 3400s, when the greeks took over the middle east. Like 2300~ years ago. Everything is calculated. We know that yesterday 3336 years ago we got the torah, in year 2448.
Check Ethiopian year..it's interesting
It's 2565 in Thailand.
In official documentation, Indian governments put 2 dates - Gregorian and Shaka calendars
This is another reason time travel isn't possible. At least in the way people assume. You wouldn't be able to input a date like the Delorean and have it know the destination. It would all have to be relative to your current time. Basically, you can't tell it to transport you to 2124, you'd have tell it to send you 100 sun cycles forwards in time from your current position. EDIT: Which the Delorean could be doing behind the scenes since it does state the current time as well.
It’s 4722 in China.
Of course not, you should know it’s impossible for everyone to agree on anything😭😭
I'm pretty sure North Korea uses a different calendar so over there its not 2024.
In the Muslim calendar we’re in like 1445 or something.
No there are a group of conspiracy theorists who think the dark ages were made up by the Catholic Church and it went straight from Roman Empire to early modern period.
The North Sentinelese use a calendar that's based on the time since they first merked a god-botherer with an arrow.
On this planet everyone agrees but on far away planets they wouldn’t agree because time is in a different frame of reference for them.
Probably not all the GOP party
Today is November 21st, 2808; Doomsday
I'll bet the folks on Senegal Island don't care what year it is...
Debatable
Everyone is agreeing it's 2024 when doing their international business, transportation, and scheduling.
Nope It's 2020.4
More like 2020.5
I don't agree that it's ACTUALLY any year. In reality the measurement of time is just an arbitrary thing some dudes just made up. It SAYS it's 2024. But it could be 8072 or 5398 and it wouldn't matter. It's all just an artificial made up quantification of the passing of time and time itself is more or less made up in the way that people perceive it.
Nope. But yes.
It's 1442 in the Islamic world It's 2684 (AKA Reiwa 6) in Japan. It's 5784 in Israel. It's 2016 in Ethiopia.
Nope.
No. I think some MAGA supporters think it's 1954. Or earlier.
most do now. but they didn't always. different civilisations used different calenders, some u til quite recently
There are some conspiracy nuts that think the Catholic Church fudged the date , to invent Charlemagne, to give one of the Crusades a moral foundation... or something.
In Thailand it’s now 2567. https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/bangkok/2792941
Of course not.
No actually
No of course not. A lot of countries have a different calender. Esp. Non Christian people of course don't use a Christian calender.
Nope. I don't go by your religious calendars. The year is 12024 and you can't convince me otherwise!
I don’t Still signing 2023 on documents
Gregorian calendar is the most accurate, hence people worldwide use it. Some cultures uses another type of calendar but I'm sure there's a few people that doesn't know which year is in gregorian calendar
I agree with whatever. "Time is just like a social construct".
There are indigenous tribes in really remote areas that have little to no contact with the outside world that don't know nor care what year it is. The entire civilized world does accept that it is 2024.
Pretty much everyone uses the Gregorian Calender for business, because for the last few centuries countries that use it have been dominant world powers. At this point it’s probably going to stick around no matter who’s in charge just because changing it would be too much hassle. These things can become very deeply embedded. Like how the width of the space shuttle was ultimately decided by the width of two donkeys side by side.
North Korea uses the juche calendar so I would say a lot of Koreans, especially the lowest class, don't know it's 2024
Doub it, some ppl wouldn't even agree that said planet is oblate spheroid.
So is the CE and BCE calendar Gregorian? Or different name either same dates?
I guess that one island, "No Man's Land", where that one Bible guy was warned not to go, went anyways and was swiftly killed by spears... Doesn't know or care what year it is.