decolonize time
i think we should move to a totally different system of time keeping thanAs for years, instead of the BCE/CE which is, despite it's secular gloss, incredibly Euro/Roman/Christian centric
A modern and universal system of year counting would not start counting history at such an arbitary and biased point, rather if we begin from say the discovery of agriculture and so we get an intuitive grasp of how old human societies really are, and it makes it easy to line up dates from different regions, there is already such a system that starts around 10,000 years ago or 8000 BCE, check it out
When it comes to years, months and weeks, the 7 day week is basically here to stay, there's no possible way you could replace it with anything, nor should you. just like 24hr time of some variation is basically fixed, tho we should maybe move the national date line somewhere that doesn't happen to land in specifically in england lmao, how about hawaii or eastern tip of siberia? seems much more logical for the day to start in the" east and set in the west" the shear hubris of the English to set themselves literally at the center of the world, the spot where the sun rises and sets, fuck you,, how could we let them pull this off? this would also force people to think about how most humans are in asia, which is
anyway a solar lunar calandar is obviously the way to go, there are numerous variations already in existence, i think the buddhist religious calandars are generally solar/lunar, iran has a pretty dope calandar ngl
while i think we should study or even keep track of various calendars just for fun and learning, most traditional calandars are marred by certain innacuracies or arbitrary conventions like their western cousins, so for a modern scientifically informated calandar we could possible draw form existing calandars but need a synesthetis that takes best elements of various traditions while striving to be strictly scientifically accurate.
The Islamic lunar calendar is very interesting before the days of the month are not fixed, iirc the stages of the moon must directly observed by a muslim astronomer, which is actually imo highly emperical, and it makes each month unique and of different lengths without arbitrary deciding on fixed lengths, the fact a couple billion people are already using it, could just use the islamic calandar as base and put it on top of a lunar calandar, like for example the hebrew calandar, get imams and rabbis to agree on it's standardization which may go through some tweeks, there boom, world peace.
I would imagine you could just kinda lay different lunar and solar calandars on top of each other, and tweak them to line up with celestial time, actually would probably be more effective than building yet another niche neo calandar no one uses, just create a big array of calandars and line them up, yish