Comment on What year is it?

GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Unbeelievable@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They would probably not speak Modern English either.

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  • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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• RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Okay, honest question: what did they call it then, if anything?

  Because it’s not like they planned on counting down to the future “messiah’s” birthday.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You have to look at non-Christian calendars.

    It was 2275 in Korea.

    It was 265 of the 33rd dynasty in Egypt.

    It was 2 of the 180th Olympiad in Greece.

    More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC

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    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I like the Chinese version best

      辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2639 or 2432

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    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Damn, so Korea went back in time? Or what are they on now? Did they hit 40K yet? Do they count in dog years? Do they inflate their numbers so it sounds cooler? Have the halfed it, when they split the country in half? I demand answers Korea!

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      • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I now realise that I know absolutely nothing of Korean history

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      • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        North Korea is at 113; they use their own calendar.

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    • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      None of them matter. They’re just funny jibber-jabber.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you’d say “in the consulship of Jones and Smith”. 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of “Julius and Caesar”.

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    • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Humour like that makes ancient people so much more relatable.

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      • TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Some humour transcends lifetimes, we were carving dicks into walls before the first century.

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      • Justas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        “Three men, a greek, a roman and a celt each get an island.

        The greek writes a book about flora and fauna of his island.

        The roman, realising that the island does not need to be conquered, builds a house, a road to the shore and a statue to himself.

        The celt starts a fight.”

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    • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      In more official settings they would also use the year “ab Urbe condita”, meaning “since the City’s founding” (city being Rome).

      59BC should be around 698 aUc if my numbers are right.

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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Depends on where in the world, but most dating systems with reginal, that is what year of what monarch/pharaoh/emperor’s reign.

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  • StaySquared@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Depends on who’s calendar… haha

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• StaySquared@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Same… took me a moment. Then I realized in 59 B.C. it was like year 700 to them at that time (not literally 700… just throwing a random number).

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