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It's some thing about "getting people to think about the future" but all it does is make it harder to read. I've never seen it anywhere but HN.
by brimble 4y ago
It's some thing about "getting people to think about the future" but all it does is make it harder to read. I've never seen it anywhere but HN.
- telotortium 4y agoI'm pretty sure it's just kragen.
- kragen 4y agohttps://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
- allturtles 4y agoThat seems, I don't know, silly? It feels mean to say silly, but I can't think of a better word. Why not use 6 digits, or 7 digits, or 20 digits? Then you'll really trigger some long-term thinking in your readers. I could start writing all my dates in years since the birth of the universe, to give people a feel for the long past and how insignificant their little lives are. But this defeats the purpose of dates, which is to communicate facts about time using a common system of numbering.