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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 11:40:20 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

Today i learned in Thailand they use a totally different way to measure what year it is.
I always thought itnwas odd different coubtries didnt coubt years differently. Seems they do.
Fuck AD i am using BE from now on no matter what coubtry im in!
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  LucifarGundam (lucifargundam@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 12:10:23 JST LucifarGundam
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendar
  BE year Equivalent
  CE years Equivalent CE
  year
  (Thai solar)
  0 544–543 BCE
  1 543–542 BCE
  543 1 BCE – 1 CE 0–1 CE
  544 1–2 CE 1–2 CE
  2483 1940–1941 1940 (Apr–Dec)
  2484 1941–1942 1941
  2565 2022–2023 2022
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar
  Lunisolar
  A lunisolar calendar is a lunar calendar that compensates by adding an extra month as needed to realign the months with the seasons. Prominent examples of lunisolar calendar are Hindu calendar and Buddhist calendar that are popular in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Another example is the Hebrew calendar, which uses a 19-year cycle.
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    A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system. A calendar can also mean a list of planned events, such as a court calendar, or a partly or fully chronological list of documents, such as a calendar of wills. Periods in a calendar (such as years and months) are usually, though not necessarily, synchronized with the cycle of the sun or the moon. The most common type of pre-modern calendar was the lunisolar calendar, a lunar calendar that occasionally adds one intercalary month to remain synchronized with the solar year over the long term. Etymology The term calendar is taken from kalendae, the term for the first day of the month in the...
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  Chris :freebsd: (chrism@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 22:26:24 JST Chris :freebsd:
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  @freemo LOL you’ll discover during your stay here, there are many things the Thais do differently to us “farangs. That’s one of the many things that makes them so charming!
  
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