The new year one

In My Humble Opinion
1

Pretend you’ve been assigned the task of creating a new calendar system. You decide to toss out the putative birth of JC as the basis for your dating system, for whatever reason (not trying to start a religious debate here). What event would you choose as the turning point in human history, as the new year 1?
Only one rule: the date of the event has to be reasonably precise - the invention of agriculture, for example, is right out, as we probably can’t date that with 1000 years, much less one.

My suggestions:

  1. European discovery of the Americas;
  2. Edison’s first demonstration of the light bulb (signifying mass electricization); or
  3. The end of WWII.

Sua

2

How about the day man landed on the moon?

3

How about the day when they finally invent a time machine?
Hav’nt got my head round this yet.

4

The day I was born, June 13th, 1981.

5

They do this in Japan all the time. The official calendar starts over at Year 1 every time the old Emperor dies.

6

So all we need is an Emperor.

I nominate me.

7

Delusions of grandeur, SPOOFE? Down, boy, down!

No, the epochal moment in the history of peoplekind was when the venerable, gracious, stunning Ice Wolf was born. You’re just too neo for the job, SPOOFE. Sorry.

8

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, maybe?

9

I’ll tell you what… I’ll fight you for it. :smiley:

10

You’re on, buddy boy! See you at dawn! Over by the sheds – bring a sword. :smiley:

11

You can bring a sword… I’m bringing a shotgun. Who said the Emperor needs to fight fair?

12

And now, folks, we hope to bring you back to your normal programme.

[sub]Hey, SPOOFE – can’t we talk about this reasonably? Wolf to shotgun-toting megalomaniac, that kind of thing?[/sub]

13

The first day someone made an OpalCat reference, of course.

14

The answer is obvious, the date SDMB first opened
Or should we go back to the founder’s birth date,
when exactly was Cecil born/hatched?

Retief

15

Doesn’t it make sense to start at the beginning of time?

That would be September 21, 1957, btw.

16

How 'bout January 1, 1970? It would make Unix programming so much easier. Of course, we’d have to make it year 0, not year 1, but think how much effort we’d save arguing whether the new century starts in year 100 or year 101.