Would be pretty cool if it was that simple, that reason needs more representation and is how I run my entrepreneurial endeavors
That's some serious forward thinking you've got going on with your date format there. I like it, I will be formatting all my years to 5 digits from now on.
OTOH, if it was just a typo - keep it to yourself, I don't wanna know. I'm all in - 5 digit years is a thing now.
it's creepy cult behavior, and the "Long Now" name and framing focused on the infinite isn't helping
Please don't, it's highly irritating and usually just serves as a way to get people to discuss the leading zero rather than the subject they were really interested in in the first place. Leading zeros aren't a thing for a reason. It's about as useful as expressing the temperature in Kelvin.
If they aren't a thing, why are we talking about them? Clearly they're a thing. And not even an obscure thing. If you've ever used commonly used representations like ZIP codes, bank account numbers, or serial numbers you'll no doubt have encountered it before. And that even goes for dates. ISO 8601, for example, requires leading zeros, including for the year component. "1" is not considered a valid year under that standard. It must be represented as "0001". Granted, ISO 8601 only requires a minimum of four characters to represent the year, but expecting at least five characters is conceptually just as valid.
Because someone decided to break convention and use one in a four-digit year.
001852 is safe for a million years!
You might also enjoy the Kurzgesagt human era calendar - https://youtu.be/29pN-2KM2DI - https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/calendar
Certainly not.
Anyway, this practice of calling attention to yourself (and to the Long Now Foundation) in every comment with this non-standard date format, I have to say is incredibly annoying. Every single time I have ever seen someone use it, the whole thread gets derailed, absolutely pointlessly. Hacker News is not a forum for discussing date formats and forcing everyone to participate in your personal language games, nor for submarine advertising for this Foundation, and I really, really wish anyone who does this would stop.
While the Farmer's Almanac doesn't go out of its way to prevent farmers from reading it or anything, it was really geared more towards suburbanites with an interest in things like gardening.
The Old Farmer's Almanac is a little more geared towards farmers, but there is no signs of it ending publication.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/end-of-an-era-farmers-almanac...
> This decision, though difficult, reflects the growing financial challenges of producing and distributing the Almanac in today’s chaotic media environment.
What is going to be lost is more than an old book for old people: It's the folklore associated with it, the - and I mean that in the most positive meaning of the word - myths. The same kind of old magic that vanished when 'Weekly World News' stopped publication, or when MAD stopped being published monthly.
I mainly read it for the jokes, as I recall.
Which seems like I can completely understand it as a practical tool in the past but fairly obsolete in modern times.
Or did it evolve, too, and was essentially modern science and maths, dressed in the trappings of a beloved cultural relic? Or is it more than ever a collection of stories and advice and other culture, and much less about the actual almanac?
I always enjoy reading through those tabulated stuff; see pp. 280-281.
There is no apparent relationship between them. Rather, a case of a competitor deciding to create a similar product in order to compete in the marketplace.
Hard to fathom now, but you used to be able to compete in the olden days. If you tried the same today lawyers would destroy you before you ever got going.
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They appear experienced at navigating this confusion
bcherry•34m ago
1. the farmer's almanac i thought of when i saw the title and even read the article is not going anywhere 2. i have never before heard of the farmer's almanac referred to in this notice
rcleveng•21m ago