Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

Should we go back to year one? Change the year?

  • 08-09-2020 10:15am
    #1
    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭


    The who idea of 2020, etc is based on Jesus' birth, which isn't even 1 AD and was more likely 4 BC.

    Let the year COVID is solved be our new enlightenment and start back from year 1.


Comments

  • #2
    Smee_Again
    Registered Users Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Smee_Again


    OK, but if we do lets start at 69.


  • #3
    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »
    The who idea of 2020, etc is based on Jesus' birth, which isn't even 1 AD and was more likely 4 BC.

    Let the year COVID is solved be our new enlightenment and start back from year 0.

    It's just a measure of time just as money is a measure of wealth but it is does not measure one's wealth of knowledge. Try live in the present moment and forgot about time and the measurement of it as there is only the present moment the here and now there is no past and there is no future.


  • #4
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Nice try Pol Pot


  • #5
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »
    The who idea of 2020, etc is based on Jesus' birth, which isn't even 1 AD and was more likely 4 BC.

    Let the year COVID is solved be our new enlightenment and start back from year 0.

    If we were going to change the clocks, perhaps we should pick something more significant like maybe the end of the last Ice age (July 19th)


  • #6
    DopeTech
    Registered Users Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    So it wouldn't be Before Christ but before covid?!


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,683 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mbxe33BYW8


    We'll even ave a tune for it.


  • #8
    1990sman
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭1990sman


    isnt some countries already in the year 4328? orthodox hindus or something (jamie?)

    time is only a measurement of vibration. man.


  • #9
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,683 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    1990sman wrote: »
    isnt some countries already in the year 4328? orthodox hindus or something (jamie?)

    time is only a measurement of vibration. man.

    Says 1990s man, haha!


  • #10
    1990sman
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭1990sman


    oh and commies already have Before Common Era, u can go identify with that nonsense somewhere else bud


  • #11
    1990sman
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭1990sman


    Panthro wrote: »
    Says 1990s man, haha!
    no seriously man, i heard it years ago, some countries or cultures are on a totally different calendar


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    1990sman
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭1990sman


    i need a jamie


  • #13
    Nexytus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Nexytus


    There's never a year zero in any calendar system or proposed system.
    Each has a first year - which is called year 1.


  • #14
    Supercell
    Registered Users Posts: 15,316 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    In China you are born aged one. Bit off topic I know but something to consider in this cunning plan perhaps?
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • #15
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Supercell wrote: »
    In China you are born aged one. Bit off topic I know but something to consider in this cunning plan perhaps?

    arse-tweets.jpg


  • #16
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »
    The who idea of 2020, etc is based on Jesus' birth, which isn't even 1 AD and was more likely 4 BC.

    Let the year COVID is solved be our new enlightenment and start back from year 0.

    Why ? What would be the ‘positive’ be to society.

    We are going to reset the calendar because ... we are bored ?


  • #17
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,101 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    1990sman wrote: »
    no seriously man, i heard it years ago, some countries or cultures are on a totally different calendar

    there are many different calendars used around the world. They each think it is a different year. In japan the year resets to one when a new emperor i crowned.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Year_in_various_calendars


  • #18
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »
    The who idea of 2020, etc is based on Jesus' birth, which isn't even 1 AD and was more likely 4 BC.

    Let the year COVID is solved be our new enlightenment and start back from year 0.
    Why would you go back to the year zero and then have to re-use years eventually? Start at 10,000 or something. I'm sure there wouldn't be any typos or anything messy like that! ;)
    1990sman wrote: »
    oh and commies already have Before Common Era, u can go identify with that nonsense somewhere else bud
    I think you'll find that the Jews used it more than the commies (and before Communism was even a thing) but a lot of Jews were commies too. They wanted to avoid mentioning 'Christ' in BC, and AD, 'the year of Our Lord'.


  • #19
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    1990sman wrote: »
    isnt some countries already in the year 4328? orthodox hindus or something (jamie?)

    time is only a measurement of vibration. man.

    You're like the Boards Disco Stu.


  • #20
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,152 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I think the Chinese were right, the year should start sometime in February


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I think the Chinese were right, the year should start sometime in February

    I’m expecting a caps lock on tweet from The Donald any moment now. How could you mention the Chinese being right? :D


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,780 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote:
    Let the year COVID is solved be our new enlightenment and start back from year 1.


    Na plough on, I'm sure I ll be resurrected again soon anyway, you can hold off till then, as you ll only be wrecking me head otherwise


  • #23
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,820 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Nexytus wrote: »
    There's never a year zero in any calendar system or proposed system.
    Each has a first year - which is called year 1.

    Conclusion - we need to get programmers to advise the calendar people how to do numbers properly.

    Life ain't always empty.



Advertisement