# Renumbering years for A.D.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renumbering-years-for-a-d/232>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 16, 1999, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renumbering-years-for-a-d/232 "1999-08-16T16:37:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 1999, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renumbering-years-for-a-d/232/21 "1999-10-04T23:30:00Z")

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I don’t get why so many are willing to change so much, even to toss off the sabbath, yet are still worshipping at the altar of the moon. 12 months, 13 months, 30 days – why? If you’re gonna change the calendar, bloody well change it. Let’s have two months per year or, better yet, let’s have 100 months per year. Hey, let’s throw out the idea of months entirely and just have weeks. No, let’s throw out weeks, too.

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**Author:** ![DavidForster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@DavidForster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidForster)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 1999, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renumbering-years-for-a-d/232/22 "1999-10-05T00:09:00Z")

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Yes, EXACTLY! Putrid, you get it! The Great Sidereal Calendar even gets rid of these arbitrary, backwoods, hicktown, boonyville, local Sol-system-centric so-called “days.” (I mean, COME ON! Talk about yer stuperstitions…) Or to be most accurate, it modifies “days” to reflect the Earth’s rotation with respect to the WHOLE UNIVERSE, not just compared to some third-rate star…

What could be more scientifical than that?

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