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New year system suggested at micro-post-LWCW meet-up:
Ante-Covid/Dopo-Covid, or AC/DC for short, with the zero point in Dec 2019.
Plus points:
+ Everyone can agree that this happened, and wasn't just religious fan-fiction taken too seriously
+ Everyone can agree when this happened, not arguing about which random astronomical event was mistaken for a star or which of the various Kings Herod was around for the events
+ Has a year zero
+ Doesn't mix up two different languages like AD/BC does
+ Alphabetical order: AC comes before DC, instead of the silly inverted order of putting BC before AD
+ Obvious choice for music in New Year celebrations
+ Saves space by allowing return to 2-digit years
Minus points:
- No longer has all of the first four letters of the Latin alphabet
- Making dec-ember the first month is even weirder than it being the twelfth
[Mood: silly]
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