Thursday, September 20, 2012

I introduce here a modified Gregorian Calendar starting from socializing and writing era



I introduce here a modified Gregorian Calendar starting from socializing and writing era

The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582. It calls for A.C. and B.C. when you are referring to events after Christ, or before Christ.

The problem with the Gregorian or Christian calendar has nothing to do with the length of the year, but with the start of dating. The length of the year has been properly adjusted according to accurate determination of the solar year, to be equal to 365.2425 days (365 days 5 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds).

The problem with beginning can be solved by using an earlier time to be the start of counting the dates. This beginning I suggest in my calendar to be the time when the humanity started to socialize and to know writing. Earliest writing dates back to 3500 BC. Socializing is when the human race started to kive in societies with common rules. Socializing, is estimated to start another 4500 years, making it 800 years before Christ.

Bearing all this in mind I am starting to use a new Calendar of my own, which starts 10000 years ago, and 8000 years before Christ. All events before that will be B.S. instead of B.C. and all events after that will be A.S. instead of A.C.

Let me apply this new calendar to some historical events

King Khufu reign, according to Manetho is
2589 BC –2566 BC

which makes his Reign length 23 years. Notice that here we are subtracting the date of his death from the date of his birth.

When we will rewrite the above dates, they will become
5411 AS - 5434 AS

Notice that here we have removed the uneasiness of subtracting the date of his death from the date of his birth, and have reverted to our normal habit of subtracting the date of his birth from the date of his death.

With continuous use of this slightly modified Gregorian Calender, the embarrassment when in the era before Christ and the era around it, is removed.

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