10th July 2008, 3:45 PM
Astrology's calendar isn't exactly very well documented, I pick "or not".
Why the heck would we want to switch? First of all, we don't have the neolithic era down to the day, which we would need. Second of all, the astrological calendar system you are talking about would get far too convoluted and would be utterly ridiculous besides.
Whatever your opinion on christianity may be, for practical reasons we really should just stick with the current year system. CE and BCE have commonely replaced BC and AD, so there's that. The technical hurdle alone would be crazy to deal with. We can devise a new one for when we land on Mars, and we will in fact be forced to as Mars years are longer (unlike dog and cat years, because contrary to popular belief cats and dogs revolve around the sun in roughly the same amount of time it takes humans to). Currently we don't really have a calendar system in place for Mars, but upon landing on it we could easily set up a Martian calendar starting with year 0 AC (after colonization, as in my cheaply made space novel/love story/political intrigue novellette).
Why the heck would we want to switch? First of all, we don't have the neolithic era down to the day, which we would need. Second of all, the astrological calendar system you are talking about would get far too convoluted and would be utterly ridiculous besides.
Whatever your opinion on christianity may be, for practical reasons we really should just stick with the current year system. CE and BCE have commonely replaced BC and AD, so there's that. The technical hurdle alone would be crazy to deal with. We can devise a new one for when we land on Mars, and we will in fact be forced to as Mars years are longer (unlike dog and cat years, because contrary to popular belief cats and dogs revolve around the sun in roughly the same amount of time it takes humans to). Currently we don't really have a calendar system in place for Mars, but upon landing on it we could easily set up a Martian calendar starting with year 0 AC (after colonization, as in my cheaply made space novel/love story/political intrigue novellette).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)